Reflections on the Filipino Woman's Past

A total picture of Philippine history would not be complete unless a proper account of the Filipinas 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 lightcoloured 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

GAMBLER AND

INDOLENT SMOKER FLIRTATIOUSIMMODEST

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

Marcela Agoncillo

Trinidad Tecson Mother of Biak na Bato

Teodora Alonso Mercado Mother of the National Hero

FILIPINA BIOGRAPHIES

Hilaria Aguinaldo Teresa Magbanua The Visayan Joan of Arc

Melchora Aquino Mother of the Revolution

WOMEN AND REVOLUTIONIt

is argued that there has been an overdetermined tendency for womens 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 prostitutesProstituta 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.