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Ernst, Kathleen M 2015-07-22T22:18:01Z 2015-07-22T22:18:01Z 2015-05 2015-04-30 This socio-historical investigation discusses education as a key contributor to women’s development in Cuba since 1959 all the while operating under a well-entrenched patriarchal backdrop. Economic indicators through labor participation are emphasized as the primary metrics for women’s development, while bearing in mind the implicit intersectionalities that they represent in the political and social spheres. A discussion of the Cuban education system, instituted to support Revolutionary ideologies, is presented along with statistical comparisons that demonstrate dramatic development achievements which widened employment opportunities for women. It underscores intentional decisions on the part of Revolutionary leadership to utilize Marxist socialism as the mechanism by which to emancipate women and exposes the oversight of the patriarchal suppositions that underlay its theoretical bases. With consideration for multiple economic, political and social achievements, various obstacles to progress and particular backslides experienced by the post-Revolutionary female population, I consider the possible use of negotiation and leverage of bargaining power from a perceived position of weakness as a potential course of action that women may undertake to overcome and dismantle patriarchal obstacles. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo terms The student, Kathleen Ernst, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-28 at 16:45. The student, Kathleen Ernst, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-04-28 at 16:46. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-04-30 at 16:54. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8167 on 2015-07-22 at 10:34:37 Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:18:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ERNST-THESIS-2015.pdf: 629768 bytes, checksum: e094986c2cd70167bf4a3f4031527944 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 5532d7a647c22de967d2690574df902b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-30 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78534 en Copyright 2015 Kathleen Ernst Cuba Women Education Patriarchy Bargaining power Leveraging bargaining power under patriarchy: the economic development of post-revolutionary Cuban women text text 2015-5 Latin American & Carib Studies Latin American Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A.