Transpacific femininities
Subtitle: the making of the modern Filipina
By: Denise Cruz
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780822353003; 9780822353164
Subjects: Philippine literature (English); Women authors; History and criticism; Women and literature; Feminist literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cartographies of the transpacific Filipina; title: Nationalism, modernity, and feminism's haunted intersections; title: Plotting a transpacific Filipina's destiny : romances of elite exceptionalism; title: New order practicality and guerrilla domesticity : the Pacific war's Filipina; title: "Pointing to the heart" : transpacific Filipinas and the question of Cold War Philippine-U.S. relations.