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Here are just SOME of the many books that have caught our eyes.
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Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan by Leny Strobel is a mosaic of poems, reflections, found texts, essays, and images that attempts to answer the question: what do you do after you decolonize? Leny Strobel continues her research and insight on the process of decolonization, which she first wrote about in Coming Full Circle. In this book, she maps her journey and writes of her unfolding realization that her life need not be overdetermined by dualisms and ideologies; that it is possible to live a joy-filled and peaceful life while always acting with others in the daily constant struggle to be human. She acknowledges, with a great depth of gratitude, the revolutionary spirit and wisdom of the Filipina Babaylan whose legacy continues to inspire today. That spirit fills these pages. ISBN: 1-887764-64-X
Book images and illustrations courtesy of Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, ISIS International Manila art by artists Sandra Torrijos, Maica Delfino and Lillette de Lara, Cal Strobel, Tiboli Publishing, Melissa Nolledo-Christoffels, and Celia at <http://desarapen.blogspot.com>. Cover and art production by Perla Paredes Daly, NewFilipina, Inc.
Table of contents and more details >>GO.
How to Order:
Retail: $18.95
T’Boli Publishing and Distributor
P O Box 347147
San Francisco, CA 94134
Email: tiboli@comcast.net
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Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory
Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience
Edited by Melinda L. de Jesús
“Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory is a collection of peminist (Filipina American feminist) cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans. It features essays by female scholars and writers who tackle issues such as gender, decolonization, globalization, transnationalism, identity, sexuality, representation and spirituality. This volume brings together for the first time critical work by Pinays of different generations and varying political and personal perspectives to chart the history of the Filipina experience. This groundbreaking collection serves as an antidote to the overly patriarchal and cultural nationalist stance of both Filipino American and Asian American scholarship and is an important corrective to the erasure and invisibility of Filipina Americans voices. This is an essential collection for scholars and writers concerned with cultural and political activism, particularly in literary, Asian American, and women's studies.
Contributors include Perla Paredes Daly's “Creating New.Filipina.com and the Rise of Cyber Pinays” ; also works by Delia Aguilar, Karin Aguilar-San Juan. Victoria Alba. Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan. Eliza O. Barrios. Rachel A. Bundang. Catherine Ceniza Choy. Terry Acebo Davis. Melinda L. de Jesús. Reanne Agustin Estrada. M. Evelina Galang. Emily Noelle Ignacio. Kim Jiang . Christine T. Lipat. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Leny Mendoza . Trinity A. Ordona. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s . Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. Linda M. Pierce. Johanna Poethig. Frank Samson. Celine Parreñas Shimizu. Cianna Pamintuan Stewart. Marie-Therese Sulit. Stephanie Syjuco. Neferti Xina M. Tadiar. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. Mary Ann Ubaldo. Catherine Wagner. Michelle R. Watts. Jenifer K. Wofford. Table of Contents and more info found at editor's online page. Order your paperback copy from the editor or from amazon.com.
Publisher: Routledge February 2005
6x9": 464 pp
ISBN: 0415949823 (hardback $95.00: alk. paper)
0415949831 (pbk $27.95. : alk. paper)
Book of the Month February 2005
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Speak Up, Woman
edited by Marivi Soliven Blanco
It has been said that women hold up half the sky. If this is so, what keeps women standing is their hope, their determination, their dreams, and their vision of lives well lived. To create a collection of personal stories that share such experiences, a group of former classmates brain-stormed on-line applying the marvels of Internet technology . They did this in 9 months! And now here is their book Speak Up, Woman. It is an anthology of over 30 articles written by Maryknoll alumnae of Batch 1980. Twenty-five years since they graduated from high school, they have scattered all over the world, "living, loving, leaving and learning" and hence the subtitle of their book. The essays in this anthology, written straight from their hearts, give voice to their lives & ---often in harrowing detail. They celebrate womanhood with the telling of their journeys of growing from girls to women as they experience life---sexuality, childbirth and raising children, a breakdown, a death in the family and many other challenges. If a woman has lived even half a life, she will see herself in these stories, because they are authentic, women-centered and ultimately empowering. They speak now for all the other women who suffer similar unspoken-of ordeals and everyday challenges.
All royalties derived from the sale of Speak Up, Woman will be donated to a selected charity of the MCHS 1980 nonprofit corporation, to be used especially for the empowerment of underprivileged women.
Click here for their Press Release and of how it was written.
To order in Manila, they may contact:
Malu del Rosario 0917-790-8446; Bobbie Domingo 0917-892-4987;
Triccie Cantero 0917-892-3562
To order in the US, contact Philippine Expressions Bookshop:
Tel 310/ 514-9139 FAX 310/ 514-3485. www.PhilippineExpressions.com
email: lindanietes@earthlink.net.
Book of the Month December 2004
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 Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
by Michael Collopy, Walter Cronkite
75 very diverse peacemakers---Nobel Peace Prize laureates, politicians, movies stars and moviemakers, scientists, spiritual leaders, artists and activists---people whose creativities have blessed civilization on this Earth, give testament to an understanding of humanity’s interconnectedness and to the vision of humankind’s potential.
Amazon.com well-notes that "making peace is an act of courage" and that if you "put them all together in a volume as elegant as this one and a higher truth emerges: making peace is the world's next spiritual calling." (Book of the Month. September 2004)
Please click this link to find out more and/or order this book.
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Missing Mangoes
by Marceline Santos Taylor
Book Description/Reviews:
”Missing Mangoes—For Filipinos and Those Who Love Us” is composed of selections from Marcelline Santos-Taylor’s weekly column, “Manila Girl,” published in the Filipino Express. A compilation of coming-to-America insights peppered with Filipino pop and folk culture tidbits and quotes, the book’s enticing flavor is as Manila as the fruit celebrated in the title—a touchstone for all Filipinos transplanted to foreign lands, where the succulent taste and texture of the authentic Philippine mango is so elusive it holds almost the same kind of mythical quality as an Elvis sighting.
In this engaging collection of 27 essays, the author examines issues of identity and adjustment, while conveying the strengths of character as well as the unique quirks that define what it means to be Filipino. Of course, one of the best ways to convey Filipino culture is through food, which the book tackles fondly, often humorously and in great detail—from the mouthwatering description of a lovingly prepared and much missed childhood dish to a not-for-the-faint-hearted listing of Fear Factor-worthy native delicacies to the Filipino fixation on the humble Spam. The author’s voyage of discovery is not only defined by moving away from the land of her birth but also the journey-within-a-journey of becoming a wife and mother in America, while infusing her culture and heritage into her family’s everyday life, in ways both big and small, every step of the way.
“Missing Mangoes” is, indeed, for Filipinos and those who know and love them; but its heartwarming honesty and perspective will also resonate with anyone who has undertaken the uniquely eye-opening journey that is the immigrant experience, or wants to come along for the ride. Most of all, the compelling chronicles of “Missing Mangoes” make readers realize that the home we sometimes feel is so far away is the same place that never really leaves us at all.
To order copies of the book,
contact: Xlibris Corporation 1-888-795-4274
www.Xlibris.com
Orders@Xlibris.com
Also try at Amazon.com. Click here.
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Self-Portraits: Twelve Filipina Artists Speak
by Thelma B. Kintanar & Sylvia Mendez Ventura
Book Description/Reviews:
From the back cover: "It is a reallity that otherness and dependence on men still define the lives of many women, and that in art, particularly, the male continues to set the standards. Some of [the women] in this book prefer to be regarded simply as artists... however, a woman who is an artist cannot escape being a woman artist. The quality of her art must be seen in terms not only of her individual talent and insight sans gender but also of her individual existence as a woman. Whatever their objections to being thus categorized, the artists we interviewed reveal their gender awareness in their narratives. ...We just happened to be art lovers and true-blue feminists who found it exciting to enter and inhabit the world of twelve distinguished women artists..."
Includes colored and black and white photos of the artists works. 220 pages. Softcover. Published in 1999 by the Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Get your copy of this book from one of the local bookstores in the Philippines. In the United States, you can try to order this book from one of these recommended Filipiniana book sources..
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