Understanding the political thought of Pura Villanueva Kalaw

ABSTRACT

In these Remarks delivered at the book launch for Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thinkers (Ed. J.V. Tigno, UP Press, 2018), I give a preview of Pura Villanueva Kalaw's feminist perspective as seen in her early writings and in the arc of her life as an advocate of Filipino woman suffrage.

KEYWORDS:

• political thought
• political theory
• feminist perspective
• feminist political thought

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Athena Lydia Casambre

Athena Lydia Casambre was a faculty member at the University of the Philippines, Baguio (1968-2001) and is a retired Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman (2001-2011). She is the author of The Discipline of Political Science, From Everyday Narratives to Analysis (Anvil, 2017).