Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 /

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Author / Creator:Roces, Mina, 1959-
Imprint:Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012.
Description:x, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8775853
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ISBN:9780824834999 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824834992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-249, 251-262) and index.
Table of 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