Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Filipino Woman in Focus
Author: The Filipino Woman in Focus
Author: Women’s Movements and the Filipina
Author: Mina RocesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book of womens organizations and activism in the Philippines highlights their significant impact on contemporary Philippine society. The author explores the ways in which womens activism has initiated change in cultural attitudes toward women by destroying stereotypes and offering alternatives models.
The Women's Decade in the Philippines
Author: Philippines. National Commission on the Role of Filipino WomenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International Women's Decade, 1976-1985
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Intimate Encounters
Author: Lieba FaierPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520944593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides."Intimate Encounters, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. Intimate Encounters provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.
Women Against Marcos
Author: Mila De GuzmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780996469425
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Filipino Woman Writing
Author: Cristina Pantoja-HidalgoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippine literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Women’s Movements and the Filipina
Author: ROCES, MARIA NATIVIDADPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is about a fundamental aspect of the feminist project in the Philippines: rethinking the Filipino woman. It focuses on how contemporary women's organizations have represented and refashioned the Filipina in their campaigns to improve women's status by locating her in history, society and politics; imagining her past, present and future; representing her in advocacy; and identifying strategies to transform her. The drive to alter the situation of women included a political aspect (lobbying and changing legislation) and a cultural one (modifying social attitudes and women’s own assessments of themselves). In this work Mina Roces examines the cultural side of the feminist agenda: how activists have critiqued Filipino womanhood and engaged in fashioning an alternative woman. How did activists theorize the Filipina and how did they use this analysis to lobby for pro-women’s legislation or alter social attitudes? What sort of Filipina role models did women’s organizations propose, and how were these new ideas disseminated to the general public? What cultural strategies did activists deploy in order to gain a mass following? Analyzing data from over seventy five interviews with feminist activists, radio and television shows, romance novels, periodicals and books published by women’s organizations and feminist nuns, comics, newsletters, and personal papers, Roces shows how representations of the Filipino woman have been central to debates about women’s empowerment. She explores the transnational character of women’s activism and offers a seminal study on the important contributions of feminist Catholic nuns. Women’s Movements and the Filipina provides an original and passionate account of the contemporary feminist movement in the Philippines, bringing to light how women’s organizations have initiated change in cultural attitudes and had a significant impact on contemporary Philippine society.
Filipino Peasant Women
Author: Ligaya Lindio-McGovernPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216240
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Filipina from the peasant class herself, the author has unprecedented access to women workers in this militarized society as well as rich insights into the lives of Third World women. Her interviews with members of the National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines and its local chapter, Peasant Women of Mindoro, detail women's landlessness, poverty, and disempowerment.
Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
Author: Vernadette Vicuña GonzalezPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography—a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper's life as a means to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper's life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of “official” archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire.