Women, Nationalism and the Philippine Revolution

In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 237-258

Abstract

Filipino women participated actively in the Philippine Revolution (1896-1902), performing a wide range of tasks essential to sustaining the revolutionary challenge against Spanish & US imperialism. Though largely omitted from mainstream histories of the nationalist revolution, women's involvement has been recorded in several marginalized texts that have invariably used a limiting format based on presenting biographies of outstanding women. Here, an alternative approach is suggested that situates the history of revolutionary Filipino women in a comparative framework. Outlined are ideas of feminist writers who have analyzed women's participation in nationalist struggles from an international perspective. Drawing on these ideas, new approaches to women in the Philippine Revolution are suggested. 57 References. Adapted from the source document.