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The Woman Question during the Japanese Occupation in Kikuko Kawakami’s and Tsuyako Miyake’s Philippine Diaries (1943)
Get PDFRealizing the value of women’s labor in the war effort, the Japanese Empire called for women all over the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (GEACPS) to shed Western influence. In 1943 Filipino women intellectuals and two Japanese writers, Kikuko Kawakami and Tsuyako Miyake, held two roundtable meetings to discuss the woman’s role within the “New Order.” Based on Kawakami and Miyake’s hitherto unstudied accounts of these meetings, thisarticle examines the discourse between Filipino and Japanese women, particularly on the women’s position in Japan’s GEACPS. The tensions present in both accounts tell of the complex power relations that informed their dialogues. KEYWORDS: JAPANESE OCCUPATION • WOMEN’S HISTORY • GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE • KIKUKO KAWAKAMI • TSUYAKO MIYAK
Bringing the Filipino Woman Back Home: Idealized femininity as idealized Orientality under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 1942-44
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Loob as Relational Interiority: A Contribution to the Philosophy of the Human Person
Get PDFThis paper is a meditation on the Filipino philosophical concept of ‘loob.’ Literally, loob means ‘inside’ or ‘interior,’ but within the horizon of the Tagalog language and the culture that has nourished my interior conversation, my social relation, and my ecological conversion, loob has meant so much more than a circumscribed space, or a container of discursive baggage, or an object for academic project. As the paper reveals, loob has an inner structure that consists of the abot-malay (ambit of consciousness), the abot-dama (ambit of feeling), and the abot-kaya (ambit of strength). From its literal image to its spatial metaphor of a relational interiority, loob opens up a whole anthropological and moral discourse of pagpapakatao (being and becoming human) that promises to enrich our growing literature on alternative philosophical discourse
