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Book Imelda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cecilio Arillo
  • Publisher : Iame
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781477581971
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Imelda written by Cecilio Arillo and published by Iame. This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the adverse and intriguing story on the controversial life of Imelda Romualdez Marcos, former First Lady and now a member of Congress representing Ilocos Norte's Second Congressional District in the Philippines, and her poetic and creative ideas in a troubled world. A product of inquiry and the demand for a fair and accurate narration and exposition of contemporary historical events, this book is Imelda's vivid and dramatic story in a series of interviews about her pain and joy; about her glory and solitude; about her wealth and deprivation; and about her riveting recollections in politics and love with President Ferdinand E. Marcos, during which time and up to now she endured persecution, discriminatory investigations, court trials, sadness, betrayal and relentless public humiliation.No living woman in history has experienced that much ordeal in the hands of her hateful and vengeful tormentors as Mrs. Marcos did.Ousted with her husband, President Marcos, from power in the so-called 1986 EDSA uprising, exiled her entire family to Hawaii, deprived of their homeland and worldly possessions and then ridiculously charged with 901 criminal and civil cases, including violations of the dreadful US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in New York for which the judge and the jury found her innocent of all the charges.

Book The Ideas of Imelda Romualdez Marcos

Download or read book The Ideas of Imelda Romualdez Marcos written by Imelda Romualdez Marcos and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Things Fall Away

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  • Author : Neferti X. M. Tadiar
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2009-05-15
  • ISBN : 0822392445
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Things Fall Away written by Neferti X. M. Tadiar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation’s writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines’ vast subaltern populations—experiences that “fall away” from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these “fallout” experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labor, the emergence of postcolonial “civil society,” and the “democratization” of formerly authoritarian nations. Tadiar treats the historical experiences articulated in feminist, urban protest, and revolutionary literatures of the 1960s–90s as “cultural software” for the transformation of dominant social relations. She considers feminist literature in relation to the feminization of labor in the 1970s, when between 300,000 and 500,000 prostitutes were working in the areas around U.S. military bases, and in the 1980s and 1990s, when more than five million Filipinas left the country to toil as maids, nannies, nurses, and sex workers. She reads urban protest literature in relation to authoritarian modernization and crony capitalism, and she reevaluates revolutionary literature’s constructions of the heroic revolutionary subject and the messianic masses, probing these social movements’ unexhausted cultural resources for radical change.

Book Imelda Romualdez Marcos

Download or read book Imelda Romualdez Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the story of the trial and acquittal of Imelda Romualdez Marcos in a New York court in 1990. Her media image of being "e;one of the richest women in the world"e; and coming from one of the poorest countries was the scandal. This book discusses some facts and events that lead to Imelda's fall. The author also addresses the scandalous affair of Ferdinand Marcos with Dovie Beams and how it destroyed Imelda. Slowly, the partner in marriage had become a rival in politics.

Book Untold Story of Imelda Marcos

Download or read book Untold Story of Imelda Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1969, during a time of great uncertainty for the Philippines, this unauthorized biography of one of the most intriguing women in the world was banned in her own country. For writing it, Carmen Pedrosa, with her family, was exiled to London for 20 years.Despite that, The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos became a local and international hit, selling out all of its print runs.Now, decades after the end of Martial Law, the book returns to tell the story of Imelda Romualdez-Marcos to a new generation.A modern Cinderella tale, The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos tells of how she rose from being a destitute child to becoming the most powerful woman of the country. Starry-eyed, penniless, and provincial, Imelda was in search of good fortune in Manila. Then came Ferdinand E. Marcos, a knight in shining armor, rescuing her from poverty and misery. "e;I will make you the First Lady of the land,"e; he promised her.Complete, detailed, and replete with facts and documents that have been painstakingly hidden from the public by the administration's image-makers, her life story unfolds, one truth at a time. It explains Imelda's much vaunted charisma that, in President Marcos' own words, garnered one million votes in the 1965 elections. She is a person who is difficult to be indifferent to. This book tells us why.

Book Imelda Marcos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
  • Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
  • Release : 2017-10-12
  • ISBN : 6210100880
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Imelda Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, Imelda Marcos was "e;rich, young, and beautiful, an Asian Jacqueline Kennedy."e; Years later, Benigno Aquino would call her "e;another Evita Peron,"e; referring to her ruthless ambition and seemingly insatiable desire for wealth and power. By 1986, she was in exile in Hawaii, having been driven from the country she and her husband had led for over twenty years.In Imelda Marcos, Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa tells the full story of Imelda's life: her tragically poor childhood and her subsequent drive to succeed socially, financially, and politically.A naive young woman from the provinces, Imelda garnered attention in 1953 as the winner of the Miss Manila contest and caught the eye of a rising young congressman, Ferdinand E. Marcos. After a courtship of eleven days, they were married. Under Ferdinand's stern tutelage, Imelda would emerge as his most important political asset and, later, as one of the wealthiest, most powerful women in the world.Based on years of research and in-depth interviews with both friends and foes of the Marcoses, this biography traces Imelda's life from her poverty-stricken origins to her present state of exile, providing insight not only into her character but also into the demise of the Marcos regime and the current turbulent political situation in the Philippines.

Book Martial Law Melodrama

Download or read book Martial Law Melodrama written by José B. Capino and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos’s autocratic regime. José B. Capino examines the figuration of politics in the Filipino director’s movies, illuminating their historical contexts, allegorical tropes, and social critiques. Combining eye-opening archival research with fresh interpretations of over fifteen of Brocka’s major and minor works, Martial Law Melodrama does more than reveal the breadth of his political vision. It also offers a timely lesson about popular cinema’s vital role in the struggle for democracy.

Book Waiting for Mariang Makiling

Download or read book Waiting for Mariang Makiling written by Resil B. Mojares and published by Ateneo University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of Philippine cultural history. It presents a diverse range of texts including: the legend of a mountain goddess, Pigafetta's discovery account of the Philippines, the life of a 17th-century Christian convert and the foundation narrative of a Marian shrine.

Book Materials on Asia  accession list and review

Download or read book Materials on Asia accession list and review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Filipino Women

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : National Centennial Commission
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Filipino Women written by and published by National Centennial Commission. This book was released on 1997 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

Download or read book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos written by Primitivo Mijares and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's Foreword This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me. I wrote this volume very, very slowly. 1 could have done with it In three months after my defection from the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on February 20.1975. Instead, I found myself availing of every excuse to slow it down. A close associate, Marcelino P. Sarmiento, even warned me, "Baka mapanis 'yan." (Your book could become stale.)While I availed of almost any excuse not to finish the manuscript of this volume, I felt the tangible voices of a muted people back home in the Philippines beckoning to me from across the vast Pacific Ocean. In whichever way I turned, I was confronted by the distraught images of the Filipino multitudes cryingout to me to finish this work, lest the frailty of human memory -- or any incident a la Nalundasan - consign to oblivion the matters I had in mind to form the vital parts of this book. It was as if the Filipino multitudes and history itself were surging in an endless wave presenting a compelling demand on me toSan Francisco, California perpetuate the personal knowledge I have gained on the infamous machinations of Ferdinand E. Marcos and his overly ambitious wife, Imelda, that led to a day of infamy in my country, that Black Friday on September 22, 1972, when martial law was declared as a means to establish history's first conjugal dictatorship. The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills. This is a book for which so much has been offered and done by Marcos and his minions so that it would never see the light of print. Now that it is off the press. I entertain greater fear that so much more will be done to prevent its circulation, not only in the Philippines but also in the United States.But this work now belongs to history. Let it speak for itself in the context of developments within the coming months or years. Although it finds great relevance in the present life of the present life of the Filipinos and of Americans interested in the study of subversion of democratic governments by apparently legal means, this work seeks to find its proper niche in history which mustinevitably render its judgment on the seizure of government power from the people by a lame duck Philippine President.If I had finished this work immediately after my defection from the totalitarian regime of Ferdinand and Imelda, or after the vicious campaign of the dictatorship to vilify me in July-August. 1975, then I could have done so only in anger. Anger did influence my production of certain portions of the manu-script. However, as I put the finishing touches to my work, I found myself expurgating it of the personal venom, the virulence and intemperate language of my original draft.Some of the materials that went into this work had been of public knowledge in the Philippines. If I had used them, it was with the intention of utilizing them as links to heretofore unrevealed facets of the various ruses that Marcos employed to establish his dictatorship.Now, I have kept faith with the Filipino people. I have kept my rendezvous with history. I have, with this work, discharged my obligation to myself, my profession of journalism, my family and my country.I had one other compelling reason for coming out with this work at the great risks of being uprooted from my beloved country, of forced separation from my wife and children and losing their affection, and of losing everything I have in my name in the Philippines - or losing life itself. It is that I wanted to makea public expiation for the little influence that I had . . . .(more inside)

Book A Filipiniana Bibliography  1743 1982

Download or read book A Filipiniana Bibliography 1743 1982 written by Marcelino A. Foronda and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation

Download or read book Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation written by Christi-Anne Castro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural history of the Philippines during the twentieth century, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation focuses on the relationships between music, performance, and ideologies of nation. Spanning the hundred years from the Filipino-American War to the 1998 Centennial celebration of the nation's independence from Spain, the book has added emphasis on the period after World War II. Author Christi-Anne Castro describes the narratives of nation embedded in several major musical genres, such as classical music and folkloric song and dance, and enacted by the most well-known performers of the country, including Bayanihan, The Philippine National Dance Company and the Philippine Madrigal Singers. Castro delves into the ideas and works of prominent native composers, from the popular art music of Francisco Santiago and Lucio San Pedro to the People Power anthem of 1986 by Jim Paredes of the group Apo Hiking Society. Through both archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, Castro reveals how individuals and groups negotiate with and contest the power of the state to define the nation as a modern and hybrid entity within a global community.

Book Imelda  Steel Butterfly of the Philippines

Download or read book Imelda Steel Butterfly of the Philippines written by Katherine W. Ellison and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time. Book description: "Katherine Ellison has a reporter's zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises." David Haward Bain, author of "Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines." "The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful," The Washington Post. .,."Proves once again that absolute power corrupts absolutely...An absorbing biography, likely to be in demand," Library Journal.

Book Imelda and the Clans

Download or read book Imelda and the Clans written by Beatriz Romualdez Francia and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philippines

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  • Author : Craig Nelson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book The Philippines written by Craig Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philippines

Download or read book The Philippines written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: