Mga Ina ng Bayan: Life Stories of Filipino and Japanese Women Community Leaders


Mga Ina ng Bayan: Life Stories of Filipino and Japanese Women Community Leaders
by Amaryllis T. Torres, Marlene dela Cruz, and Thelma Magcuro

322 pages
ISBN - 9718280162

Description: The reader of the life stories of five Filipino and six Japanese women community leaders in this book will embark on a journey that traverses the mental and physical spaces of exceptional females working in extraordinary circumstances-Mga Ina ng Bayan (mothers of the country) by virtue of their steadfast dedication to the advancement of their communities and their gender as grassroots leaders.

Dr. Amaryllis T. Torres, Marlene dela Cruz, and Thelma Magcuro of the U.P. College of Social Work and Community Development expertly capture the living testaments and heartwarming experiences of the women community leaders and interpret them within a carefully constructed theoretical framework that illuminates the essential role that they perform in nation-building.

An enriching, scholarly, inspiring, and movingly human research study.

(Sold out; available in some book stores)

Price: P450.00


Posted on May 28, 2008