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

by Roces, Mina, 1959-

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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012.

Feminism -- Philippines -- History.

Women -- Philippines -- Social conditions.

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

Women political activists -- Philippines.

9780824834999 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0824834992 (hardcover : alk. paper)

x, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: women's movements and womanhood -- The religious roots of women's oppression: feminist nuns and the Filipino woman -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women: women of the Cordillera -- "There is no need to endure": women's health movements -- Women's studies on the air: radio, television, and women's movements -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces: abortion as a reproductive right.

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