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 Center‐ Northern QuezonPrelature of InfantaPanukulan, Quezon
22 March 2012Panukulan, Quezon
Archeological diggings and findings by chances reveal a different story….. a story of our nation’s Glorious Past…
a resilient nation.
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
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
Archeological gold found in the Philippines validates the accuracy of Boxer Codex
Archeological gold found in the Philippines validates the accuracy of Boxer Codex
Goddess, statue found in Mindanao
Binibini
KINNARI
A 3D gold statue of a girl with wings found in Mindanao
Gold of Ancestors in Ayala Museum
Gintong Sablay “Sacred Thread” ( 4 kilos )
Marriage in Sulu illustrated by Fernando Amorsolo
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
“Women Indio” even during colonial period wore grandiose clothes
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
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
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
American colonial period
vi. Prostitution increased as cabarets were established in the haciendas and entertainment clubs proliferated where the Americans had military bases
Japanese invasion
i. Rampant sexual abuses: comfort women
ii. Served as symbol of their authority/control
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
By the grace of the Divine Providence, few women preserve the genuine cultural heritage of the Brown
Race… inherent resilient womanhood
Questions????