Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 /
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, soc...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- The religious roots of women's oppression
- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative
- The woman as worker
- Indigenous women
- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure)
- Women's studies on the air
- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress
- Women's movements in transnational spaces
- Women's movements in liminal spaces.