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Working women of Manila in the 19th century

Title: Working women of Manila in the 19th century / Ma. Luisa Camagay.
Author: Camagay, Maria Luisa T.
Publication: [Manila] : University of the Philippines Press and the University Center for Women Studies, 1995.

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Description

x, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The work documents the life of gainfully employed women in the 19th century. Seven occupations of women were studied, namely, the cigarreras (tobacco factory workers), the matronas titulares (licensed midwives), the maestras (teachers), the criadas (female domestic workers), the tenderas and vendadoras (store owners and vendors), the costureras and bordadoras (seamstresses and embroiderers), and the mujeres publicas (prostitutes).
With women often absent or marginalized in the pages of history, the study attempts to unravel through archival sources and other non-documentary sources like literature and iconography the life of these working women. Despite the meager archival materials on women and more specifically working women, this study prides itself in having used primary sources to document working Filipino women during the Spanish period.

Subject

Working class women > Manila

Bibliography (note)

ISBN

9715420591

LCCN

95947529

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries