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Domestic Violence and Rape Domestic Violence and Rape
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Legislative Advocacy: The Anti-Rape Act Legislative Advocacy: The Anti-Rape Act
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Anti-Violence Advocacy: Protecting Women and Children Anti-Violence Advocacy: Protecting Women and Children
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Community Organizing: Women Help Themselves Community Organizing: Women Help Themselves
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Reproductive Health Reproductive Health
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Women Can Have a Libido After All!: Sexuality and the Women’s Health Movements Women Can Have a Libido After All!: Sexuality and the Women’s Health Movements
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Women’s Desire, Beauty, and Virginity Women’s Desire, Beauty, and Virginity
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Lesbianism Lesbianism
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Sexuality Sexuality
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Who Will Take the Place of the Woman as Martyr? Who Will Take the Place of the Woman as Martyr?
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5 “There Is No Need to Endure”: Women’s Health Movements
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Published:February 2012
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Abstract
This chapter tackles the women's health movements and their perception of the Filipino woman intrinsic to their advocacy for women's health—particularly the controversial issues of reproductive rights and sexuality. Discourses on the feminine were invoked in public debates over issues such as rape, domestic violence, reproductive health, and sexuality. Women's health movements, although by no means united, have been consistent in their representation and fashioning of “the Filipina.” A majority of women's health activists defined women as agents who needed access to information and services about their bodies. Because women were represented as agents, they must be given the right to make their own choices about their bodies and their health—decisions they should arrive at after being presented with the right information and services.
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