A comparative feminist study on selected Philippine love stories from 20th to 21st century [manuscript]
| dc.contributor.author | Lovely Dawn T. Gapuz | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-21T04:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-21T04:22:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to the significant women character portrayls among six selected love stories using Carol Gillingan's concept of Cultural Feminism focusing on their female essence, female nature, and female culture. The selected love stories from 20th century are Small Key by Paz Latorena, Midsummer by Manuel E. Arguilla, and Tanabata's Wife by Sinai Hamada, and the love stories The Dust Monster by Carl Javier, Love in the Comhusks by Aida Rivera and A Normal Life by Reine Arcache Melvin are gathered from the 21st century. Results showed that, (1) Women have varying personalities they did not choose but are biologically essential to them such as being caring, attractive, graceful, conservative, infertile, grateful, liberated, wife, mother, youth, homemaker, hardworking, traditional, enduring, and understanding. (2) That women are mostly characterized in love stories as homemaker , caring, attractive, wife, mother, and hardworking. (3) Graceful, conservative, youth/young, traditional, and enduring are the characteristics found on the love stories under 20th century that are not found on the love stories under 21st century; (4) However, Reve portrayed infertility and understanding, Tinay portrayed gratefulness, and the unnamed character portrayed as liberated which are the characteristics found on the love stories that are under 21st century and are not found on the selected 20th century love stories. (5) Women has recurring characteristics that either fall to be their celebration of their female essence, female nature or female culture. (6) Women's roles in each love stories contributed to what kind of women they are in terms of Carol Gillingan's concept of Cultural Feminism. Moreover, it implies knowledge on how women essentially, naturally, and culturally celebrate their femininity that clears the idea of discrimination and oppression. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://granarium.clsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/1450 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.supervisor | SHARINA CARLA S. MERCULIO | |
| dc.title | A comparative feminist study on selected Philippine love stories from 20th to 21st century [manuscript] | |
| dc.type | Thesis |