“Chase’s nuanced analysis of the centrality of gender politics to revolutionary struggle merits praise for opening up a promising new direction in the study of the Cuban Revolution, and for reinvigorating dialogue about the Revolution’s social legacy in this momentous time in US-Cuban relations.” — CHOICE
“The research for this book is extensive, and Chase is evenhanded in her collection and interpretation of the materials.” — American Historical Review
“[A]n altogether excellent, informative, and essential book: an opening salvo in a conversation that, as Chase convincingly demonstrates, was long overdue.” — Jennifer Lambe, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University, NACLA
“A work that should attract not only historians of the Cuban Revolution but anyone interested in gender and the history of women in Latin America.” — Alfonso Salgado, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos
“An innovative and accessible text that underscores the possibility and malleability of early moments of revolution.” — Hispanic American Historical Review
“Centering women’s experiences and perspectives in a provocative reconsideration of the Cuban Revolution, Revolution within the Revolution disrupts official narratives that depict prerevolutionary Communists' rise to dominance within the Castro government as a harmonious and inevitable process, while demonstrating that revolutionary leaders' attention to women’s issues after 1959 was reactive rather than proactive, a response to the vast but forgotten grassroots mobilization of women in Cuba’s urban centers after the revolution’s triumph.”—Latin American Research Review
“Michelle Chase challenges both official and anti-Castro accounts of women’s roles during the critical periods of anti-Batista activism, the armed stage of the Cuban Revolution, and the consolidation of the Castro regime, demonstrating how both gender ideologies and women’s activism pushed the revolutionary movement in new directions. Chase argues convincingly that women activists led — rather than followed — many of the revolutionary government’s most important policy changes.” — Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
“Engaging, well written, and well argued, this is an important intervention in debates about gender, sexuality, the family, and political struggle in the Cuban Revolutionary victory of 1959.” — Carrie Hamilton, Roehampton University
