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Author Cruz, Denise, 1975-

Title Transpacific femininities : the making of the modern Filipina / Denise Cruz
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Transpacific Filipinas, Made and Remade -- Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina -- Nationalism, Modernity, and Feminism's Haunted Intersections -- Plotting a Transpacific Filipina's Destiny -- New Order Practicality and Guerrilla Domesticity -- "Pointing to the Heart" -- Epilogue: Transpacific Feminities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace
Summary Focusing on the early to mid-twentieth century, Denise Cruz illuminates the role that a growing English-language Philippine print culture played in the emergence of new classes of transpacific women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Philippine literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Feminist literature -- Philippines
Women and literature -- Philippines
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Feminist literature
Philippine literature (English) -- Women authors
Women and literature
Philippines
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822395652
0822395657
9781283742405
1283742403