Reflections on the Filipino

Woman's Past
A total picture of Philippine history would not be
complete unless a proper account of the
Filipina’s experience is explored and recorded.
 Historical narratives depicted Filipino
woman as assuming a subordinate role
when in reality she has displayed a
more assertive nature.
What was she like?
…the best of this province
(Tagals) are the best of all
the Islands… they are light-
coloured people of very
good figures and faces, and
like to put on many
ornaments of gold, which
they have in great
abundance…

…the women are

exceedingly ugly and most
indecent…
 The filipina confined herself to the task of
running the home and controlled the income
of the family…
 One trait
which stood
out in the
mind of the
foreigners
was her
sense of
hospitality to
strangers…
Negative traits of Filipino women…

INDOLENT…
SMOKER…
FLIRTATIOUS
GAMBLER…
AND
IMMODEST…
Filipina dress…
The best man in the country…
The Philippine entrepreneurial scene would not
be complete– would, indeed, not be Filipino – if it
did not include that ancient Philippine institution,
the womanof business… Legarda
WOMEN IN THE
PHILIPPINE
REVOLUTION
Historiography
of Revolution…
 Trinidad Tecson Teodora Alonso Mercado
Marcela Agoncillo
Mother of Biak na Bato Mother of the National Hero

FILIPINA BIOGRAPHIES…

Hilaria Aguinaldo
Melchora Aquino
Teresa Magbanua
Mother of the Revolution
The Visayan Joan of Arc
WOMEN AND REVOLUTION…
Itis argued that there
has been an over-
determined tendency
for women’s
involvement in the
Philippine revolution
to be minimized…
Prostitution
in
Nineteenth
Century
Manila
Medicines for venereal disease…
The Arrest of Prostitutes
Deportation of Prostitutes…
Marriage as mean to evade
deportations…
Social Profile of Prostitutes…
Popular perception of prostitutes…
Prostituta
Mujer publica
Vagamunda
Indocumentada
 Government actions…
 Closer supervision of the activities prostitutes.
 Creation of a Bureau of Public Health which
undertook the licensing of prostitutes in
Manila.
 Soliciting of clients in public was strictly
prohibited.