2020
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-7857259
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Internationalizing the Revolutionary Family

Abstract: This article argues that Cuban ideas about gender, sexuality, and the family shaped Cuban internationalist collaboration with Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. It demonstrates that collaboration sprang from a gendered political discourse, and in turn the dynamics of gendered relationships between Cubans and Nicaraguans affected the internationalist campaigns. First, the essay argues that state discourse expanded the idea of the New Man to include volunteering abroad, and cast female participants as moral agent… Show more

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“…24 Or the punishment classmates subjected each other to in the Soviet Union. 25 It should be noted that this totalising cost of militancy over individuals was not always exactly total. As historians like Emily Snyder have argued, it was mediated and resisted within revolutionary circles.…”
Section: Costsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…24 Or the punishment classmates subjected each other to in the Soviet Union. 25 It should be noted that this totalising cost of militancy over individuals was not always exactly total. As historians like Emily Snyder have argued, it was mediated and resisted within revolutionary circles.…”
Section: Costsmentioning
confidence: 99%