Transpacific Femininities

The Making of the Modern Filipina

Bibliographic Data

ID5850108
AuthorsDenise Ferreira Da Costa Cruz (0000-0001-6249-8041, corresponding author), Denise Cruz
Year2012
Pages308
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTranspacific Femininities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822395652
OpenAlexW4206485072
Open LibraryOL29666035M
ISBN9780822395652
LanguageEN
Citations received15

In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity. Her analysis illuminates connections between the rise in the number of Philippine works produced in English and the emergence of new social classes of transpacific women during the early to mid-twentieth century.Through a careful study of multiple texts produced by Filipina and Filipino writers in the Philippines and the United States-including novels and short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, conduct manuals, and editorial cartoons-Cruz provides a new archive and fresh perspectives for understanding Philippine literature and culture. She demonstrates that the modern Filipina did not emerge as a simple byproduct of American and Spanish colonial regimes, but rather was the result of political, economic, and cultural interactions among the Philippines, Spain, the United States, and Japan. Cruz shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped to shape, and were shaped by, conceptions of the transpacific Filipina

Ancient history · Colonialism · Empire · Feminism · Geography · Media studies · Modernity · Nationalism · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society

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