With almost unprecedented access to Celia Sanchez Manduley's papers, including a personal diary, and firsthand interviews with family members, Tiffany Sippial presents the first critical study of a notoriously private and self-abnegating woman who yet exists as an enduring symbol of revolutionary ideals.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Searching for Celia: biography and the politics of remembrance -- Most native wildflower: tales of a revolutionary youth -- Compañera of ideals: forging a revolutionary identity -- First female guerrilla: life on the front lines of revolution -- Like the invisible salt: the making of a revolutionary stateswoman -- Who is Celia Sánchez?: image, politics, and sexuality in the U.S. media -- Towards the gates of eternity: death of a revolutionary heroine -- Myth, mother, mujer: afterlife of a revolutionary.