![]() ![]() Her mother died when Celia was a child, and since then she followed her father, who was an example of the best of the first republican generation of highly patriotic professionals who advocated Marti's roots, which he passed on to his daughter as he devoted himself to rural medicine, without thinking about social climbing by profiting from his profession. Those steeped in the revolution and those new to it will better understand why it mattered and will continue to matter.January 11 will mark the 42nd anniversary of the death of Celia Sánchez Manduley, known as the Heroine of the Mountains and the Plains, who died of cancer at 59 however, those intense years of life were enough for her to make and indelible impression on Cuban history.Ĭelia Esther de los Desamparados was born on in the town of Media Luna, in what today is the province of Granma, to Acacia Manduley and the rural doctor Manuel Sánchez Silveira, who had 9 children. “This beautifully written biography of Celia Sánchez Manduley-perhaps the Cuban Revolution's least recognized and most important leader-is both a brilliant piece of scholarship and an engrossing story that brings the woman, time, place, and revolutionary process alive. “Sippial’s biography, based on hundreds of interviews, suggests that in the end, reticence might have been her greatest achievement, the performance that made everything else she accomplished possible.”- Guernica Revealing the person behind the revered Sanchez image required deft and relentless excavation on Sippial’s part."- HAHR Meet a woman whose saintly image belies a record of accomplishment all the more remarkable for unfolding in a sexist society that regarded the New Woman as the physical, psychological, and sexual helpmeet of the New Man. A thoughtful biography of an under-examined life."- International Feminist Journal of Politics ![]() "An intriguing expedition into the life of a woman who was a significant contributor to the Cuban insurrection and a principal architect of the first two decades of the revolutionary government that followed. ![]() “Sippial explores the mythical memory of Sánchez as Fidel’s companion and Cuba’s mother. "Sippial’s beautifully written and stunningly intimate biographical portrait of Sánchez helps readers reimagine the Cuban Revolution through a feminist lens."- American Historical Review Sippial reveals the scope and depth of Sánchez’s power and influence within the Cuban revolution, as well as her struggles with violence, her political development, and the sacrifices required by her status as a leader and “New Woman.” Using the tools of feminist biography, cultural history, and the politics of memory, Sippial reveals how Sánchez strategically crafted her own legacy within a history still dominated by bearded men in fatigues. Sippial presents the first critical study of a notoriously private and self-abnegating woman who yet exists as an enduring symbol of revolutionary ideals. With almost unprecedented access to Sánchez’s papers, including a personal diary, and firsthand interviews with family members, Tiffany A. Since her death, Sánchez has been revered as a national icon, cultivated and guarded by the Cuban government. She was one of Castro’s closest confidants, perhaps lover, and went on to serve as a high-ranking government official and international ambassador. Sánchez joined the movement in her early thirties, initially as an arms runner and later as a combatant. Clad in her military fatigues, this “first female guerrilla of the Sierra Maestra” is seen in many photographs alongside Fidel Castro. Celia Sánchez Manduley (1920–1980) is famous for her role in the Cuban revolution. ![]()
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