May 14th Suffrage Rallies Under the General Council of Women
On the 14th of May 1936, different women organizations of the Philippines celebrated the first anniversary of the right given to women to vote for a constitution with parades, meetings and programs in various provinces The Constitution of 1935 stipulated that in two years after its adoption, a plebiscite shall be organized in which qualified women could vote in favor or against the extension of the right to vote to women. During the celebration women were urged to participate in this coming plebiscite which would take place on the 30th of April of the following year. That would be the day in which the right to suffrage was extended to women in the Philippines.
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Fecha
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1939-06
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Fuente
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“May 14th Suffrage Rallies Under the General Council of Women”, Woman’s Home Journal, June, 1936. P. 33. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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Roces, Mina C. 2002. “Women in Philippine Politics and Society”, in Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines (edited by Hazel M. McFerson). Connecticut: Greenwood Press: 159-89.
Roces, Mina. 2004. “Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? Defining ‘the Filipino Woman’ in colonial Philippines”, in Women’s Suffrage in Asia (edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces). RoutledgeCurzon: 24-59.
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Idioma
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English
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Georgiana Sara Negrutiu
