Clandestinas

“Although I was familiar with various of the anecdotes and testimonies, I found Clandestinas impossible to put down. It reads like a novel! Carolee Bengelsdorf’s book is of the utmost importance to those wanting to approach Cuban history from the perspective of the real participation of women insurrectionists and how their contributions have been silenced not only in Cuba but in Latin America as well. Bengelsdorf has crafted an incredibly brave and compelling account of the women in clandestinidad.” - Margarita Mateo Palmer, Cuban critic, essayist, and novelist

“Clandestinas is rich with detail and filled with insight into the public lives and private experiences of women who immersed themselves into the multiple and multifaceted perils associated with political resistance. Subverting the premise that the success of the Cuban revolution was an achievement principally of men, Carollee Bengelsdorf provides a compelling and much-needed counternarrative to what has settled into a conventional account. This impressive book will make a decisive contribution to a deeper understanding of the complexities of the Cuban revolutionary war and its aftermath.” - Louis A. Pérez Jr., author of Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

"Critically important. . . . Bengelsdorf’s book [is] required reading­­." - Gavin O'Toole, Latin American Review of Books