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Women, Power, and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post-War Philippines

Autor Mina Roces
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 mai 1998 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Politics in the Philippines is not male-dominated, but gendered. This book examines how women hold power unofficially through their kinship ties with male politicians. Examining the perspectives of local concepts of power, the author explores gender and power in post-war Philippines and characterizes kinship politics embedded in the predominate political culture.Women's power is a site where the conflict between the two discourses of kinship politics and modern nationalist values is daily contested. Unofficial women's power is resourced through kinship politics, but because it is exercised behind the scenes it makes women vulnerable to criticisms that they are manipulative or scheming, wielding power that is illegal, undemocratic, anti-nationalist and unaccountable. But, at the other end of the equation, women's crusades against graft and corruption is doubly legitimized through both the modern discursive prioritizing of the nation-state and through women's traditional gendered roles as moral guardians. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Philippine studies, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, women and power in Asia, and feminist studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275960063
ISBN-10: 0275960064
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 1, black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

MINA ROCES is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Central Queensland University in Australia.

Cuprins

IllustrationsIntroduction: Toward Engendering Philippine Post-War History and PoliticsPower Outside the Symbols of PowerWomen Politicians: Equal but Different?Women in Radical PoliticsBeauty Queen, Moral Guardian, Inang Bayan, and Militant Nun: Images of Female PowerConclusion: Empowering WomenBibliographyIndex