Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina

by Denise Cruz

In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity. Her analysis illuminates connections between the rise in the number of Philippine works produced in English and the emergence of new social classes of transpacific women during the early to mid-twentieth century.

Through a careful study of multiple...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353164
• ISBN13: 9780822353164
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"