Reveals the centrality of women rebels to Fidel Castro's Cuban insurrection in the 1950s.

A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle.

This book is a rare and important study on the people and many of the groups and activist regions involved in the Cuban insurrection of the 1950s. It addresses

The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army's libera

The transformation of women's economic and social status in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.