Women's Movements and the Filipina

1986-2008

Bibliographic Data

ID23773773
AuthorsMina Roces (corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-02-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21313/hawaii/9780824834999.001.0001
OpenAlexW2587748505
ISBN9780824834999
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

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. 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). The book 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? The book shows how representations of the Filipino woman have been central to debates about women's empowerment. It explores the transnational character of women's activism and offers a seminal study on the important contributions of feminist Catholic nuns. The book provides an 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.

Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology

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