Revolutionary's capturing female cooks (5)
I believe the answer is:
chefs
'cooks' is the definition.
(I know this)
'revolutionary's capturing female' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary's' becomes 'che's' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'capturing' indicates putting letters inside.
'female' becomes 'f' (common abbreviation).
'ches' placed around 'f' is 'CHEFS'.
(Other definitions for chefs that I've seen before include "Top cooks" , "Professional cooks" .)