Colonization and imperialism women's disaster

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Role of Women in Disaster Preparedness, Risk Reduction, Recovery and Rehabilitation Women Subordinate Position in Philippines Society: A Colonial Legacy (CWR) Some text were based on the account of Center for Women Resources Presented by: ALFREDO N. DARAG JR. DRR & CCA Staff Social Action CenterNorthern Quezon Prelature of Infanta Panukulan, Quezon 22 March 2012 Panukulan, Quezon

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This presentation narrates how colonization/imperialism create women subordinate position in Philippine society

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Role of Women in Disaster Preparedness, Risk Reduction, Recovery and Rehabilitation

Women Subordinate Position in Philippines Society: A Colonial Legacy (CWR)

Some text  were based on the account of Center for Women Resources

Presented by:

ALFREDO N. DARAG JR.DRR & CCA Staff Social Action Center‐ Northern QuezonPrelature of InfantaPanukulan, Quezon

22 March 2012Panukulan, Quezon

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Archeological diggings and findings by chances reveal a different story….. a story of our nation’s Glorious Past… 

a resilient nation.

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BOXER CODEX circa 1595

During pre‐ colonial era, both men and women wore jewelries and fine clothes.

Women can possess her own belongings/ personal property.

Tagalogs

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BOXER CODEX circa 1595

The codex is one of the earliest western document that illustrates how we look when the Spaniards first came to our archipelago.

Bisayans

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Archeological gold found in the Philippines validates the accuracy of Boxer Codex 

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Archeological gold found in the Philippines validates the accuracy of Boxer Codex 

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Goddess, statue found in Mindanao

Binibini

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KINNARI

A 3D gold statue of a girl with wings found in Mindanao

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Gold of Ancestors in Ayala Museum

Gintong Sablay “Sacred Thread” ( 4 kilos )

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Marriage in Sulu illustrated by Fernando Amorsolo

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Spanish colonial period

i. Women: under the control of their husbands; no property

ii. No right to education; formal trainings were all related to religion and how to become good housewives

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“Women Indio” even during colonial period wore grandiose clothes

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American colonial period

i. Women were added to the growing cheap reserve of labor force

ii. Many women were hired in services, an extension of their domestic chores

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American colonial period

iii. As workers

‐ They were paid less because they were assigned

in unskilled labor

‐ They belonged to the “feminine jobs” such as

laundry woman, vendor, in the informal sector

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American colonial period

iv. Women were allowed to study but values of feudal patriarchal and bourgeois system were inculcated

v. Chastity, virginity and the double standard of morality prevailed

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American colonial period

vi. Prostitution increased as cabarets were established in the haciendas and entertainment clubs proliferated where the Americans had military bases

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Japanese invasion

i. Rampant sexual abuses: comfort women

ii. Served as symbol of their authority/control

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As a result of the colonialpast

Belief that women are under the authority of the:− ruling class, powers‐that‐be, government or religious authority− family− husband

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By the grace of the Divine Providence, few women preserve the genuine cultural heritage of the  Brown 

Race… inherent resilient womanhood

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Questions????