Feminism in the Philippines

Individual Feminists

Internet Sites:

GABRIELA, A National Alliance of Women's Organizations has a webpage located here. You can email them through Liza Largoza-Maza, the Secretary General of the organization here or write to them at this postal address: GABRIELA, P.O. Box 4386, Manila 2800, Philippines.

You can reach Isis publishing, Manila, here.

Women's Issues in the Philippine Congress can be read here.

The Filipino Women in Politics and Governance webpage is located here.

Introduction

One of the most important women's rights organizations in Asia -- The Asia-Pacific Women's Action Network (APWAN) -- is based in the Philippines. You can reach them via this postal address: APWAN, Manila Secretariat, 4L Fil-Garcia Ave, Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES.

Bibliography

Aguilar, Delia. The Feminist Challenge: Initial Working Principles Toward Reconceptualizing the Feminist Movement in the Philippines. (out of print)

Aguilar, Delia. Towards a Nationalist Feminism. Giraffe/PALH, 1998.

Beltran, Ruby and Gloria Rodriguez, ed. Filipino Women Migrant Workers: At the Crossroads and Beyond Beijing. Giraffe/PALH, 1996.

Kalaw-Tirol, Lorna, ed. Women in Fire. Philippine American Literary House, 1997.

Manlapaz, Edna Zapanta, ed. Songs of Ourselves: Writings by Filipino Wolmen in English. Philippine American Literary House, 1994.

Mission, Gina. "The Breadwinners: Female Migrant Workers." WIN: Women's International Net Issue 15A (Nov 1998). [You can read this article here.]

Mission, Gina. "Their Own Worst Enemies: Gender Politics in the Philippines." WIN: Women's International Net Issue 8B (April 1998). [You can read this article here.]

Roces, Mina. Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: The Female Rise to Power in Post-War Philippines. 1998.

San Juan, E. Filipina Insurgency: Writing Against Patriarchy in the Philippines. Giraffe/PALH, 1998.

Sison, Marites N. "A New Underclass of Poor, Single Women Emerging." The Manila Times (30 Mar 1999) [You can read this article here.]

Ventura, Sylvia Mendez. Feminist Readings of Philippine Fiction: Critique and Anthology. 1994.