Review “How Have Revolutions Changed the Lives of Women?”

Abstract

The book “How Have Revolutions Changed the Lives of
Women?”, compiled by Nastassja Rojas Silva, Valentina Bohórquez Polo and Sergio Angel, published in 2024 by Universidad Sergio Arboleda, constitutes a rigorous and necessary exercise of demystification of three political processes that proclaimed themselves emancipatory: the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. With a prologue by ´Erika Guevara Rosas, former Americas director of Amnesty International, the work brings together more than twenty academic, activist, and testimonial voices that converge on a shared diagnosis: Latin American revolutions not only failed to fulfill their promises of gender equality, but deepened the subordination of women by instrumentalizing them as sustainers of political projects.