Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Anne E. Lacsamana has been awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based on her book project Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror. This monograph will be the first to offer a gendered analysis of the deteriorating social, economic and political situation in the Philippines since the election of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2001 and the subsequent declaration of the country as the "second front" in the U.S..-led War on Terror in 2002.
The 2008-2009 class of AAUW Educational Foundation American Fellows includes recipients of dissertation fellowships, postdoctoral research leave fellowships and summer/short-term research publication grants. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology." Ninety-seven fellows were selected from 1,116 applications.
Lacsamana's project situates Filipino women squarely within the international division of labor to underscore the importance and necessity of a historical materialist analysis in a post 9/11 world marked by war, growing inequality within and among nation-states and environmental degradation. The deployment of a class analysis makes explicit the connection between the "super-exploitation" of Filipino women's labor power at home and their migration abroad to more than 192 countries as domestic workers, nurses, nannies, entertainers and mail-order brides, marking a fundamental methodological and theoretical break from previous postcolonial and/or transnational feminist analyses on the subject.
Since AAUW began providing fellowships to women in 1888, more than $50 million dollars has been awarded to outstanding women scholars from over 135 countries. This year, $4.4 million will be awarded.
The 2008-2009 class of AAUW Educational Foundation American Fellows includes recipients of dissertation fellowships, postdoctoral research leave fellowships and summer/short-term research publication grants. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology." Ninety-seven fellows were selected from 1,116 applications.
Lacsamana's project situates Filipino women squarely within the international division of labor to underscore the importance and necessity of a historical materialist analysis in a post 9/11 world marked by war, growing inequality within and among nation-states and environmental degradation. The deployment of a class analysis makes explicit the connection between the "super-exploitation" of Filipino women's labor power at home and their migration abroad to more than 192 countries as domestic workers, nurses, nannies, entertainers and mail-order brides, marking a fundamental methodological and theoretical break from previous postcolonial and/or transnational feminist analyses on the subject.
Since AAUW began providing fellowships to women in 1888, more than $50 million dollars has been awarded to outstanding women scholars from over 135 countries. This year, $4.4 million will be awarded.
