Woman’s Worth
The Concept of Virtue in the Education of Women in Spanish Colonial Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11875475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marya Svetlana Camacho (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philippine Studies Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2244-1093 • E-ISSN: 2244-1638 |
| Publisher | Ateneo de Manila University Press (PUBLISHER • PH) |
| DOI | 10.13185/2244-1638.1278 |
| OpenAlex | W2223447832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Central to feminine institutional education in the Spanish colonial Philippines was religious and moral formation: the forging and practice of virtue as defining a woman's worth. This type of education sought to prepare girls and women for their primary social function of spousemother-homemaker or, to a lesser extent, for religious community life. In keeping with the feminine ideal prevalent in Hispanized societies of the period, women3 education introduced new feminine values with emphasis on purity, modesty, and seclusion. Paradoxically, enclosure and the virtues consonant with it gained public transcendence on the premise that the quality of public life depended on the ethical values of its participants whose personal lives had been shaped first in the home by women
Colonialism · Political science · Premise · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy · Virtue · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |