heteropatriarchy, but also its potential obsolescence given the complicity of revolutionary and liberal Philippine nationalisms with global capital.;My second chapter, "Letting the Cat(achresis) Out of the Bag: Transnational Filipina Motherhood," reads two texts that represent motherhood in two ...
An increase in labor opportunities for women in other countries has led to a feminization in global migration in which women are migrating alone, leaving their children and families in their country of origin and "transnationalizing" the meaning of motherhood (Horton, 2008; von Klitzing, 2006)....