Join us for our upcoming seminar on Latin American Women’s History, featuring Dr. Tanya Harmer (London School of Economics) presenting her paper on ‘Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s’!
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, at 4pm BST/GMT+1
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Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s
This paper uses the biography of Beatriz Allende as a lens to explore gender politics in Chile and Cuba during the 1960s and 1970s. It charts Beatriz’s involvement in student politics in Chile’s long-1960s, her role within an internationalist guerrilla insurgency in Bolivia that Cuba helped coordinate, her position in her father’s presidential administration in the early 1970s and her responsibilities within the global solidarity campaign for Chile from Havana after 1973. Situating Beatriz’s life within the context of politics and society at the time, it asks what it was like to be a female revolutionary in the era of Che Guevara. It concludes by examining what we know – and what we still have to learn – about women and revolution in Cold War Latin America.
About the Speaker
Tanya Harmer is an Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published widely on the international and transnational history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on histories of Chile and Cuba. Her publications include Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War (UNC, 2011), which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Luciano Tomassini Award in 2013, Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (UNC, 2020) and Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left, edited with Alberto Martín (University Press of Florida, 2021).
