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Re-Imahinasyon ng Ina sa Panitikan ng Kababaihan Re-imahinasyon ng Ina sa Panitikan ng Kababaihan: Isang Imbestigasyon sa Ideolohiyang Maternal sa Panitikan Rosario Torres-Yu crimp The narratives generated by my earlier study of 20 women writers from three generations were a rich source of data and insights on many issues on gender and writing, such as gestation and its understandation in literature. It is their ideas on maternal quality which led me to ask how some of them represent motherhood in their working and what these representations say about their positions on the dominant maternalistic political orientation in Philippine culture. other impetus came from Delia Aguilars study on Filipino housewives and the regime of gender. This study reveals that . . . in the private space of the family as the major(ip) mechanism for the reproduction of social relations, women are at one time validated and oppressed, a process that is powerfully mediated by the maternal ideology of which women are the foremost proponents. This maternal ideology shapes Filipino womens idea of motherhood that sees devotion to children, self-sacrifice, and wield giving as the essence of motherhood, allowing them to embrace oppression and subordination.

In this context, the interrogation of maternal ideology in Philippine literature is important to the overall feminist movement. Women writers who have freed themselves from the mystifying notions of motherhood may have been inspired to represent women in their works differently. This paper clearly validates such assumption. Writers like Liwayway Arceo, Genoveva Edroza-Matute, Fanny Garcia, Lualhati Bautista, Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, and Luna Sicat-Cleto, as this reading of some of their works reveals, challenge the dominant maternal ideology by reimagining motherhood. Without wholly rejecting the traditional notion of motherhood (with the exception of Luna Sicat-Cleto who questions Humanities Diliman (January-June 2000) 1:1, 1-21 1 Torres-Yu the... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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