ABSTRACT
This article aims at organizing the Cuban gender studies jigsaw puzzle, emphasizing only its methodological approaches and its gender perspectives. I also describe the social and historical context prevailing in Cuba 25 years ago, to understand the moment when the majority of Cuban researchers started studying gender issues-mainly about women-and to explain why we started many years after our colleagues from Latin America, the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. In Cuba, there was no boom of social research on gender; instead what happened was a sort of flow of studies in this direction, which we all slowly decided to join. The reasons for doing so are found at the macro social level as well as at the individual level of the professional and emotional needs of researchers.
