A revolution in the binary? Gender and the oxymoron of revolutionary war in Cuba and Nicaragua

Signs

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 413-439

  de Volo, Lorraine Bayard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 82255163708     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661727     Document Type: Article

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