Mina Roces
| Email: | m.roces@unsw.edu.au |
| Visiting period: | June/ July 2013 |
| Department: | Department of History |
| Affiliation: | University of New South Wales |
Mina Roces is Associate Professor for Southeast Asian history at the School of Humanities, University of New South Wales. She is Co-Leader of the Research Cluster Imperial, Colonial and Transnational Histories
Mina Roces is currently working on an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant funded project entitled "A History of Filipino Migration and Identity,1906-2010.”
Her research focus on Modern Southeast Asian history and Women in Asia with a specialization in Women's movements in the Philippines, transnational activism, politics of dress, and dress and identity.
Selected publications
Books:
2012 Women's Movements and the Filipina, 1985-2008 (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 2012),
2001 Kinship Politics in Post-War Philippines: The Lopez Family, 1946-2000, (Manila: De La Salle University Press, 2001).
Edited books:
2010 With Louise Edwards, Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism , (London: Routledge, 2010).
2009 With Louise Edwards, Major Works on Women in Asia , 4 Volumes, (London: Routledge, 2009).
2007 With Louise Edwards, The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas, (Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2007).
2004 With Louise Edwards, Women's Suffrage in Asia, (London: Routledge,2004).
2003 With Nicola Piper, Wife or Worker? Asian Marriage and Migration, (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, March 2003).
2000 With Louise Edwards, Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, and Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 2000).
Book chpaters:
2013, "“Performing Filipina Identities in Politics” in William Guériache (Ed.), Les Philippines contemporaines. Bangkok-Paris: IRASEC-Les Indes Savantes, forthcoming.
2010, "Asian Feminisms: Women's Movements from the Asian Perspective", in Mina Roces and Louise Edwards (Eds). Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism , (London: Routledge, 2010).
2010 "Rethinking "the Filipino Woman": A Century of Women's Activism in the Philippines", in Mina Roces and Louise Edwards (Eds). Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism, (London: Routledge, 2010).
2009, with Louise Edwards, "Women in Asia as a Distinct Research Field", in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds.) Major Works on Women in Asia , 4 Volumes, (London: Routledge, 2009).
2008, “Women, Citizenship and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth Century Philippines”, in Qi Wang, Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, and Cecilia Milwertz (eds), The Politics of Gender in Asia –Fields of Challenge and Change,, (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008).
2008, "A Postcolonial Nun, a Political Activist and a Feminist: Mary John Mananzan OSB",, in Vin D'Cruz (ed.) Political Actors in Asia (Sydney: Australian Academic Press, 2008).
Articles (peer-refereed):
2013 "Dress, Status and Identity in the Philippines: Pineapple Fiber Cloth and Ilustrado Fashion", Fashion Theory Vol. 17, No. 3, June 2013, forthcoming.
2013 "The Filipino Women's Clubs Movement in the American Colonial Period, 1905-1937", Gender & Colonialism , forthcoming.
2009 "Prostitution, Women's Movements and the Victim Narrative in the Philippines', in Women's Studies International Forum , Issue 32, July-August, 2009, pp. 270-280..
2008 "The Filipino Catholic Nun as Transnational Feminist", in Women's History Review,. Vol. 17, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 57-78.
Current research
"Filipino Migrant Activism"