Cuban Women Now: Afterward 1974

Publisher:  The Women's Press
Year Published:  1974
Pages:  16pp   Resource Type:  Pamphlet
Cx Number:  CX23199

I am writing this afterword because I feel that in the past three years fundamental changes have taken place in Cuban society,changes concerning women's role and men's, and women's attitudes towards those roles.

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It is precisely in this cultural area where the great residue of women's oppression lies. As reflected in Cuban Women Now, a transitional woman has been born in Cuba: a woman who has the opportunity to study what she wants: a woman with almost limitless job opportuntities. She is a woman, however, who daily must confront the imposition of a dozen commenting men every time she walks down the street. A young girl although permitted, and indeed, expected, to share in Militia duties as an adult, is heavily role-orientated as a child in terms of choice of toys, ideas of feminine beauty, etc.

This is a country where all commericial advertizing has been wiped from our senses. There are no women's smiles advertizing tooth-paste, or women's bodies advertizing cars, although Carnival is still a yearly occasion for choosing stars and starlets. This event is run by the unions and mass organizations rather than high society. The "stars" are elected by the people, not by how many votes they can buy or how many politicans they can sleep with. Participation in revolutionary, productive life is a requirement, but clearly "looks" still count, too.

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Subject Headings

• Cuba