Mina Roces
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834999
- eISBN:
- 9780824871581
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834999.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Carol Hall
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807837238
- eISBN:
- 9781469601427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837559_rotskoff.9
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses a newly conceived project by television star Marlo Thomas. Thomas felt passionately about gathering together a group of writers who would create a new kind of album of songs ...
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This chapter discusses a newly conceived project by television star Marlo Thomas. Thomas felt passionately about gathering together a group of writers who would create a new kind of album of songs and stories for children, the likes of which had never been done before. It was to be called Free to Be … You and Me. It was the 1970s, and the rumble of feminism was being heard loud and clear across the land. Ms. magazine had burst onto the scene. The phrase “nonsexist child rearing” was a major issue on the feminist agenda. Marlo's album would break down gender-specific stereotypes and cliches of what defined girls' and boys' behavior.Less
This chapter discusses a newly conceived project by television star Marlo Thomas. Thomas felt passionately about gathering together a group of writers who would create a new kind of album of songs and stories for children, the likes of which had never been done before. It was to be called Free to Be … You and Me. It was the 1970s, and the rumble of feminism was being heard loud and clear across the land. Ms. magazine had burst onto the scene. The phrase “nonsexist child rearing” was a major issue on the feminist agenda. Marlo's album would break down gender-specific stereotypes and cliches of what defined girls' and boys' behavior.
Betty Livingston Adams
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814745465
- eISBN:
- 9781479880324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814745465.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on church women in the electoral process where they carved alternative roles as politicians. Having tried for decades to effect progressive social reforms, by 1920, with the ...
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This chapter focuses on church women in the electoral process where they carved alternative roles as politicians. Having tried for decades to effect progressive social reforms, by 1920, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, New Jersey’s black women were organized for action. In 1922 they formed Colored Women’s Republican Clubs and over the next decade and a half mobilized a political machine. Even as they allied with white women on key legislation, their particular issues led them beyond feminist and maternalist agendas to a focus on civil rights. Though their political behavior often branded them as Republican Party loyalists, black women’s political ideals rested on Christian principles. The Republican Party and its candidates did not reward their work or support their agenda, and thus lost their votes; they voted for jobs and justice in the Democratic realignment of 1936.Less
This chapter focuses on church women in the electoral process where they carved alternative roles as politicians. Having tried for decades to effect progressive social reforms, by 1920, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, New Jersey’s black women were organized for action. In 1922 they formed Colored Women’s Republican Clubs and over the next decade and a half mobilized a political machine. Even as they allied with white women on key legislation, their particular issues led them beyond feminist and maternalist agendas to a focus on civil rights. Though their political behavior often branded them as Republican Party loyalists, black women’s political ideals rested on Christian principles. The Republican Party and its candidates did not reward their work or support their agenda, and thus lost their votes; they voted for jobs and justice in the Democratic realignment of 1936.
Sandra E. Bonura
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824866440
- eISBN:
- 9780824876890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824866440.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Throughout her tenure at Kamehameha Schools, Pope continued her graduate work at the University of Chicago. Pope spent three separate semesters learning the latest educational methods from the most ...
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Throughout her tenure at Kamehameha Schools, Pope continued her graduate work at the University of Chicago. Pope spent three separate semesters learning the latest educational methods from the most progressive leaders of the time in order to elevate education in Hawaii. She also traveled throughout the United States to consult with the brightest minds in the budding vocational education and social change movement. In turn, the movement’s leaders visited her. She was able to use her experiences to facilitate the first social survey of Honolulu, which contributed to the overhaul of labor laws, vastly improving working conditions for Hawaiian women. In 1910, Pope attended the first National Conference on Vocational Guidance in Boston. Educators, social workers, and corporate figures from 45 cities met to discuss how to improve the lives of immigrants by making sound vocational choices. Conference presenters and attendees included Jane Addams, Homer Folks, G. Stanley Hall, George Mead, Henry Metcalf, and Edward Thorndike. Pope joined these pioneers in the field of education and sociology for two days of stimulating discourse that ultimately ignited a national interest in public school career guidance. Pope advocated for a vocational bureau in Honolulu until her death.Less
Throughout her tenure at Kamehameha Schools, Pope continued her graduate work at the University of Chicago. Pope spent three separate semesters learning the latest educational methods from the most progressive leaders of the time in order to elevate education in Hawaii. She also traveled throughout the United States to consult with the brightest minds in the budding vocational education and social change movement. In turn, the movement’s leaders visited her. She was able to use her experiences to facilitate the first social survey of Honolulu, which contributed to the overhaul of labor laws, vastly improving working conditions for Hawaiian women. In 1910, Pope attended the first National Conference on Vocational Guidance in Boston. Educators, social workers, and corporate figures from 45 cities met to discuss how to improve the lives of immigrants by making sound vocational choices. Conference presenters and attendees included Jane Addams, Homer Folks, G. Stanley Hall, George Mead, Henry Metcalf, and Edward Thorndike. Pope joined these pioneers in the field of education and sociology for two days of stimulating discourse that ultimately ignited a national interest in public school career guidance. Pope advocated for a vocational bureau in Honolulu until her death.
