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On December 8, 1941, as the Pacific War reached the Philippines, Yay Panlilio, a Filipina-Irish American, faced a question with no easy answer: How could she contribute to the war? In this 1950 memoir,The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla,Panlilio narrates her experience as a journalist, triple agent, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V. Augustin. From the war-torn streets of Japanese-occupied Manila, to battlegrounds in the countryside, and the rural farmlands of central California, Panlilio blends wry commentary, rigorous journalistic detail, and popular romance. Weaving together appearances by Douglas MacArthur and Carlos Romulo with dangerous espionage networks, this work provides an insightful perspective on the war.The Crucibleinvites readers to see new intersections in Filipina/o, Asian American, and American literature studies, and Denise Cruz's introduction imparts key biographical, historical, and cultural contexts to that purpose.

This is a history of the suffrage movement in Britain from the beginnings of the first sustained campaign in the 1860s to the winning of the vote for women in 1918. The book focuses on a number of figures whose role in this agitation has been ignored or neglected. These include the free-thinker Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy; the founder of the women's movement in the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the working class orator, Jessie Craigen; and the socialist suffragists, Hannah Mitchell and Mary Gawthorpe. Through the lives of these figures Holton uncovers the complex origins of the movement and associated issues of gender. 'This book... compels a re-evaluation of the whole (suffrage) movement, and its historiography... It is a must for anyone who wants to be informed about women's suffrage.' – The Fawcett Library Newsletter 'This fine, impeccably researched book.' – The Times Higher Education Supplement 'Her marvellous new book, Suffrage Days , is both sufficiently readable to engage new students' interest and sufficiently provocative in its aim and its fresh discoveries to engross old suffrage hands. Holton is a hard act to follow.' – Jill Liddington, University of Leeds. 'A splendid job ... highly enjoyable.' – Reviews in History

José Legaspi is one of the few openly gay visual artists in the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic society that generally still has much difficulty accepting the idea and practice of homosexuality. Often autobiographical in nature, Legaspi's contemporary art installations, sculptures, and drawings bring together image, text, and materiality to bear witness to dark personal life-narratives relating to his homosexuality and Catholicism in the Philippines. His \"auto-graphic\" reflections record explicit depictions of his own sexuality, sardonic critiques of religious repression, and anguished and often violent reflections on the life and death of those most dear and hateful to his heart.

This article examines how Sebbar's ambivalent relationship with the Arabic language is intertwined with issues of filiation and affiliation in various autobiographical narratives that span her publishing career. Sebbar, whose mother is French and whose father is Arab, does not speak Arabic and received a Eurocentric upbringing in colonial Algeria. I analyze how a recurrent syntactic similarity and periphrasis across several texts' titles intertwine language abilities and filiations, and demonstrate that they create the filial and linguistic links that were displaced by the French language. In addition, I trace the role that contemporary events, such as the Algerian civil war, play in the variations of a scene which is recounted over time in several texts, in which boys insulted Sebbar in Arabic daily on her way to school. I study how Sebbar's treatment of language and gender issues strengthens her Algerian filiation through affiliation with Algerian women.

The paper questions a common assumption among Western policy analysts that vigorous economic development leads ultimately to political liberalization, largely through the creation of a middle class that begins to demand expanded civil freedoms. It argues for a consideration of the activist role of working-class and women's movements in struggles for plural representation. Drawing upon recent fieldwork in Metro Manila factories and the Bataan Export Processing Zone, the author presents the political biography of a young, working-class woman activist, as a means of exploring a theorization of political agency that does not assume that it is primarily the middle classes who act as a constituency for democratization.

A native of Bacolor, Pampanga, Doña Luisa Gonzaga de León was the first Filipino woman to publish a book—the Ejercicio Cotidiano (Daily Devotion)—in about 1844. This article introduces the writer, with a brief sketch of her life and family background, and her book whose significance in Philippine literature has been overlooked. The book is a compilation and translation, from Spanish to Kapampangan, of daily prayers and the liturgy of the Catholic mass. As the first missal in the vernacular, the book is seen as ahead of its time. Its most original part is the preface, which in this article is translated to English.

Stora focuses on the troubles inflicted upon women during the two conflicts that have blooded Algeria's territory in the second half of the 20th century. The state of violence inflicted by the masculine upon the feminine is explored.

We are just about to have breakfast when I hear Nanay Oring calling from outside. \"Ne, Ne!\" she cries, in that bleating voice of hers. Since the door has been left open, she makes her way into our kitchen.

[...]the discussions provided are focused on increasing understanding as to why in an area of the world where women have held a more prominent role in community and family life have there been observable limitations to the attainment of more significant political position and fundamentally power. Both women shared similar backgrounds and both provided a conduit for the nationalism movement by serving as a communication channel between their ethnic groups and the larger movement.