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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
VAGINAL ECONOMY: Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos Post-Brocka Era (Rolando Tolentino)
“This essay explores the trope of the vaginal economy that is proliferated in the political economy and nature of Philippine migration. The vaginal economy is both receptacle and symptom of Philippine development. It represents the discourse through cinema, and historicizes the primal debate in the Marcos and Brocka contestation for image-building of the nation. Primarily through the sex-oriented (bomba) films and their permutations in the various political life of the contemporary nation, the vaginal economy is historicized even in the after-life of the post-Marcos and post-Brocka era.” (abstract)
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Judith Butler)
“Ten years ago I completed the manuscript of Gender Trouble and sent it to Routledge for publication. I did not know that the text would have as wide an audience as it has had, nor did I know that it would constitute a provocative ‘intervention’ in feminist theory or be cited as one of the founding texts of queer theory.The life of the text has exceeded my intentions, and that is surely in part the result of the changing context of its reception. As I wrote it, I understood myself to be in an embattled and oppositional relation to certain forms of feminism, even as I understood the text to be part of feminism itself. I was writing in the tradition of immanent critique that seeks to provoke critical examination of the basic vocabulary of the movement of thought to which it belongs. There was and remains warrant for such a mode of criticism and to distinguish between self-criticism that promises a more democratic and inclusive life for the movement and criticism that seeks to undermine it altogether. Of course, it is always possible to misread the former as the latter, but I would hope that that will not be done in the case of Gender Trouble.” (Judith Butler’s preface to the 1999 edition)
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The Social Construction of the Filipino Woman (Delia Aguilar)
“In this essay, I will critically review the representations of Filipino women in pertinent literature and analyze the historical conditions of their emergence. By contextualizing Filipino women and defining their construction as a mediated social process, I hope to elucidate the terrain on which practices of speech and action operate. Finally, I will examine the intervention of contemporary social science in the shaping of women’s subjectivity and attempt to uncover the theoretical assumptions informing current paradigms.” (from Delia Aguilar’s introduction)
Two Classics of Revolutionary Feminism
“We have written this paper to express and share with other women ideas for a new strategy for the women’s movement. Currently there are two ideological poles, representing the prevailing tendencies within the movement. One is the direction toward new lifestyles within a women’s culture, emphasizing personal liberation and growth, and the relationship of women to women. Given our real need to break loose from the old patterns–socially, psychologically, and economically–and given the necessity for new patterns in the post revolutionary society, we understand, support and enjoy this tendency. However, when it is the sole emphasis, we see it leading more toward a kind of formless insulation rather than to a condition in which we can fight for and win power over our own lives.” (from “Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women’s Movement”)
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