Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. K. LYNN STONER (ed.): Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000

Bibliographies are difficult to judge; those outside of the field can seldom assess if there have been significant omissions, or if they account for the latest scholarship. The merits of this exceptional research tool, however, will be evident to students of Latin America and the Caribbean. Lynn Stoner and Luis Hipólito Serrano Pérez's work offers some 2000 annotated entries --both archival and scholarly-- pertaining to Cuban and Cuban-American women from the late nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, with the bulk focusing on the latter. Individual entries range from a few lines on a little-known mambisa, to references to entire collections of government and statistical data, to biographies. Six chapters are ordered chronologically and divided into sections covering the turn of the century, the early Republic, Batista's regime, the years of turmoil leading to the revolution, and post-revolutionary society. The concluding chapter concentrates on Cuban women in "exile," a term that the authors do not always differentiate adequately from migration.