Filipino Women’s Magazines 1909-1940: Resistance, Cultural Subversion, and Compromise

Issue: Volume 01 Issue 02
Theme: Gender Identities and Media
Type of Article: Authors: Rivera, Cynthia Luz P. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52518/2004.1.2-01-1 APA Reference Entry:

Rivera, C. L. P. (2004). Filipino women’s magazines 1909-1940: Resistance, cultural subversion, and compromise. Plaridel, 1(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.52518/2004.1.2-01-1

 August 2004 · Volume No.: 1 Issue No.: 2 Editor: Enriquez, Elizabeth L

Abstract

A reading of magazines written by women for women during the American period provides an interesting locus for discourse in cultural politics, given the advent of a colonial power bearing images of modernity, democracy, and liberalism. This paper argues that these women’s magazines display significant tendencies and shifts in women’s cultural-political outlook. The emerging paradigms affirm the complexity of the task of accurately imaging the Filipino woman within this time frame, and interrogate the simplistic mainstream configuration that the “Filipino woman spent three hundred years in a convent and fifty years in Holywood”.

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