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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women’s Movements and Womanhood
Part I. Representations: Representing Women
1. The Religious Roots of Women’s Oppression: Feminist Nuns and the Filipino Woman
2. Prostitution, Women’s Movements, and the Victim Narrative
3. The Woman as Worker
4. Indigenous Women: Women of the Cordillera
5. “There Is No Need to Endure”: Women’s Health Movements
Part II. Practices: Fashioning Women
6. Women’s Studies on the Air: Radio, Television, and Women’s Movements
7. Fashioning Women through Activism, Ritual, and Dress
Part III. Spaces: Locating Women
8. Women’s Movements in Transnational Spaces
9. Women’s Movements in Liminal Spaces: Abortion as a Reproductive Right
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Women’s Organizations
Appendix 2: Radio and Television Shows Discussed
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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