Women's Movements and the Filipina : 1986-2008 / Maria Natividad Roces.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roces, Maria Natividad, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women political activists--Philippines.

Women political activists.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Philippines.

Women.

Women--Philippines--Social conditions.

Feminism--Philippines--History.

Feminism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Women's Movements and Womanhood

Part I. Representations: Representing Women

1. The Religious Roots of Women's Oppression: Feminist Nuns and the Filipino Woman

2. Prostitution, Women's Movements, and the Victim Narrative

3. The Woman as Worker

4. Indigenous Women: Women of the Cordillera

5. "There Is No Need to Endure": Women's Health Movements

Part II. Practices: Fashioning Women

6. Women's Studies on the Air: Radio, Television, and Women's Movements

7. Fashioning Women through Activism, Ritual, and Dress

Part III. Spaces: Locating Women

8. Women's Movements in Transnational Spaces

9. Women's Movements in Liminal Spaces: Abortion as a Reproductive Right

Conclusion

Appendix 1: List of Women's Organizations

Appendix 2: Radio and Television Shows Discussed

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824871581

0824871588

9780824861216

0824861213

OCLC:

793012705