..., and the effort to reconcile those contradictions caused her great turmoil. But if she never outgrew her misgivings on the nature of woman or her convictions on the role of women in the public sphere, Harris did come to see that whatever biology was, gender was a social construct. Apart from examining the effects...

...This chapter discusses Harris's ideas about the role of women as seen in the characters of her novels. Often she venerated domestic tradition in the popular press and blamed and condemned women for straying from the security of domesticity, yet in some of her fictions she disclosed a marked...

... they had endured. The revolution was frayed but no credible alternatives were in sight. Although the revolution brought about a change in the perceived public and societal role of women, women at some point were always subjected to some forms of discrimination. While Cuba has policies that targeted...