Tadiar, Neferti Xina M. 1964-

Things fall away : Philippine historical experience and the makings of globalization / Neferti X. M. Tadiar. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2009. - viii, 484 p. ; 24 cm. - Post-contemporary interventions . - Post-contemporary interventions. .

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. loosed upon the world -- Prostituted Filipinas and the crisis of Philippine culture -- Women alone -- Poetics of Filipina export -- Modern refuse in the "city of man" -- Petty adventures in (the nation's) capital -- Metropolitan debris -- Revolutionary imagination and the masses -- Guerilla passion and the unfinished cultural revolution -- The sorrows of people.

9780822344315 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822344469 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008053654


Globalization--Philippines.
Women--Philippines.
National characteristics, Philippine.


Philippines--Civilization.
Philippines--Social life and customs.
Philippines--Emigration and immigration.

DS664 / .T33 2009

305.5/609599