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Girls in school uniform, near Pinar del Río, Cuba. 2006. Historically, Cuba was a largely agrarian society, with a tourism-based economy in the urban areas, primarily Havana. Many women were forced to work as maids or prostitutes in these areas because there were not many other choices for them, as they were excluded from educational ...
Merici Academy was founded when American Ursuline nuns in Havana saw a need for an English-language girls’ school. The school opened in 1941, with Mother Thomas Voorhies of the New Orleans Ursuline community as its principal. [1] Merici Academy opened with 100 students, although by 1950 it had grown to 300 students. [2]
The abolition of slavery in 1886, and Cuba's three liberation wars against Spain, resulted in the migration of significant numbers of Afro-Cuban workers to Havana in search of housing and employment. A public debate followed concerning the relationship between the changes in the city's demographics and the levels of prostitution in the city. [ 15 ]
Ladies in White demonstration in Havana (April 2012). Ladies in White (Spanish: Damas de Blanco) is an opposition movement in Cuba founded in 2003 by wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents and those who have been made to disappear by the government.
Sandra Ramos Lorenzo was born in Havana, Cuba to two native Cuban parents, and she now lives in Miami, Florida. She was heavily inspired to become an artist by the painter Gloria González, the grandmother of Ramos's close childhood friend, curator Wendy Navarro.
De Armas was born in Havana, Cuba, [1] and raised in the small city of Santa Cruz del Norte. [2] Her maternal grandparents were Spanish migrants to Cuba from the regions of Leon and Palencia, both in the north of Spain. [3] [4] Her father Ramón worked in various jobs, including a bank manager, teacher, school principal and deputy mayor of a ...
Cuban women were also greatly affected by the Cuban literacy campaign launched by the government after the revolution. [36] Nicola Murray, writing in Feminist Review, notes that: 55% of the brigadistas (the schoolchildren who went to live with peasant families and taught them to read and write) were girls.
Alicia Castro's Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of the Legendary Anacaona, Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band (Grove Press, 2007) is a history of the band which concentrates on the band's early period. The British edition is titled Anacaona: The Adventures of Cuba's Most Famous All-Girl Orchestra.