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September 25, 2025
Accustomed Othering in Colonial Writing
Accustomed Othering in Colonial Writing
September 2015--There are at least three major discursive issues that can be extracted from the document, Customs of the Tagalogs written by Juan de Plasencia in 1589, if we are to put socio-political context into the text – first, the issue of authorship; second, the discourse of power in colonial...
A Critical Essay on Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women�s Magazines (1891-2002)
A Critical Essay on Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women�s Magazines (1891-2002)
April 2013--Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women’s Magazines from 1891-2002 by Georgina Reyes Encanto is a first attempt to record the history of Women’s magazines in the historical-feminist perspective. The author herself is the former Dean of Mass Communication and a Journalism...
A Critical Essay on Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women’s Magazines (1891-2002)
April 2013--Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women’s Magazines from 1891-2002 by Georgina Reyes Encanto is a first attempt to record the history of Women’s magazines in the historical-feminist perspective. The author herself is the former Dean of Mass Communication and a Journalism...
The (Stifling) Spaces of Femininity in the Philippine Art World: A Book Review on Flaudette May Datuin's Home Body Memory: Filipina Artist in the Visu
The (Stifling) Spaces of Femininity in the Philippine Art World: A Book Review on Flaudette May Datuin's Home Body Memory: Filipina Artist in the Visu
August 2012--Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to Present by Flaudette May Datuin, PhD. is a recount of the history of Filipina artist from during the 19th Century until the present time on which the book was written and published in early 2000s. Datuin, an Associate...
Book Review: Edifice Complex: Power, Myth, and the Marcos State Architecture by Gerard Lico
Book Review: Edifice Complex: Power, Myth, and the Marcos State Architecture by Gerard Lico
The book is about Marcosian Architecture. The author started each chapter with quotes from different scholars as an introduction to his discussions. The book is very much influenced by Michel Foucaults discourse on power and knowledge. Lico says that Marcos regime recognized the nexus of architecture...
Book Review: Philippine Ancestral Houses Fernando Zialcita and Martin Tinio
Book Review: Philippine Ancestral Houses Fernando Zialcita and Martin Tinio
The two hundred and sixty-three pages of the coffee table book, Philippine Ancestral Houses, is a richly illustrated history and analysis of the bahay na bato - - how it came about, where, when, and how it did. It explains its architectural evolution and why particular architectural ideas occurred. There...