Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-248 and index.
Contents
Women and the Cuban revolution -- Naty Revuelta : cultural worker -- Aída Pelayo : schoolteacher and revolutionary -- María Antonia Carrillo : Afro-Cuban dance troupe director and artist -- Zoila Elisa Alfonso González : tobacco worker and union organizer -- Nancy Morejón : Afro-Cuban poet and journalist -- Belkis Vega : documentary film maker -- Toward an interpretation of Cuban testimonies -- Chilean women and human rights -- Elena Maureira : speaker on behalf of the disappeared -- Mirta Crocco : social worker and community activist -- Elena Pinilla : domestic worker and political militant -- Alicia Oyarsún : military wife and mother of political prisoner -- Rosa Alfaro : secretary and widow of slain youth leader -- Belinda Zubecueta : political prisoner -- Chiloé Sasso : student living in exile -- Political awareness in Chilean testimonies -- Conclusion : self-fashioning through narration
