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In 1934, Raffiñan was one of the two examinees who passed the Architects' Board of Examinations. Raffiñan is an expert on the history of art and society in the Philippines. She has written Art and Visuality in the Early Spanish Philippines, 1521-1800 and Looking at Renaissance through Philippine Eyes. She became the first licensed woman ...
Concepción Felix Roque (9 February 1884 – 26 January 1967) was a Filipina feminist and human rights activist.She established one of the first women's organizations in the Philippines, Asociación Feminista Filipina, as well as one of the first humanitarian NGOs, La Gota de Leche, aimed specifically at the well-being of mothers and their children.
Anita Magsaysay-Ho (born Anita Corpus Magsaysay; May 25, 1914 – May 5, 2012) was a Filipina painter who specialized in Social Realism and post-Cubism in regard to women in Filipino culture. [2] Magsaysay-Ho's work appeals to Modernism by utilizing more abstract designs and styles rather than realistic approaches. [ 3 ]
Filipino women artists started contributing to Philippine art when the Philippines was still a colonial province of Spain (1521–1898). [1] They have continued to participate as art creators after World War II through modern times by either following the traditional way of making art or by departing from such tradition by embracing modernism ...
The Asociación Feminista Filipina (Philippine Feminist Association) or AFF was a Filipino women's organization, founded in 1905. [1] [2] It was the first women's organization in the Philippines. [1] [3] The objective of the organization was the betterment of women's well-being regardless of class. [4]
In 2011, the NHCP stated it will pursue more markers for Visayas and Mindanao for their further inclusion in national history, citing the concentration of markers in Luzon. [12] The Kudan, the Philippine embassy building in Tokyo, has been declared a national historical landmark by the NHCP and was granted a historical marker on March 3, 2014.
Filipino women worked hard to mobilize and fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s and gained victory after 447,725 out of 500,000 votes affirmed women's right to vote. [ 2 ] Counterarguments against women gaining the right to vote in the Philippines were stated because it would ruin family unity, giving less power to the husband or man ...
The group's exhibits foregrounded the importance and excellence of women, breaking down the primacy of “fine art” over “indigenous art” or “folk” art. Other exhibits such as Filipina Migranteng Manggagawa (Filipina Migrant Workers), enacted an advocacy, discussion and analysis of the current Filipina diaspora of women labour. [11]