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Filipinas: Living in a Time of War

Explore the complex experiences of Filipina women as they navigate through a time of war, where they are commodified and their bodies become evidence of conflict. Discover the invisible wars within society and the struggles for liberation and freedom.

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Filipinas: Living in a Time of War

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  1. “Filipinas ‘Living in a Time of War’’’-NefertiXina M. Tadiar Melissa Pérez Lauren Mewshaw LTWL 155

  2. “You are a brief’s bottoma necktie, the embroidery on a handkerchief and an undershirt.Your beauty will be measured on the bed,your mind, by money earned.”--ElyniaMabanglo • Tadiar’s Main Argument: “to be a woman is to live in a time of war” (374) • Filipina women as global commodities • (i.e. “domestic belongings”) • signifier/signified: femininity, openness, hospitable • Applied to the “nation and women’s bodies”

  3. War: Invisible or All Around Us? Rosca’sState of War: • “War of development” • Island festival being co-opted • The land, women, and tradition as commodities • “Declaration of War” • Example: International Women’s Year by United Nations, International Decade for Women • Which women? Who is involved? (i.e. feminism in the U.S.– one woman’s liberation dependent on another woman’s domestic or other labors

  4. “This Bridge Called My Back” – CherríeMoraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, et. al • Filipina women bear the burden of linking the Philippines to the “international society”—378 • Nationalists coopting Filipina desires and dreams to fuel production (similar to Tadiar’sFantasy Production)

  5. Bodies as Evidence of War • Suicide/death rates of Filipina women • “Material testaments of wars” (376) • Tadiar’s initial point about people being implicit in these fantasies and also victims (The causalities but also the “weaponry”—376) • Link to colonialism: “Survived the rape but could not survive the shame and committed suicide” - Rosca (77)

  6. The “Eye” • “What and who something represents (as its value)” • “It is an infliction of pain, a violent insistence on difference in the face of sameness”—380 • Foucault, diffusion of power • Bearers of culture, icon of purity, mother building a nation(Yen Le Espiritu in Homebound) • Class differences • Andrés Bonafaciovs Emilio Aguinaldo

  7. Soldier of Love “How long have I studied the depths and extent of this war. In the end, I understand that to be a woman is a never-ceasing struggle to live and be free”--383

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