Raquel A.G. Reyes, Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement

The Institute of East Asian Studies and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
present a book discussion and book signing,

with Dr. Raquel A.G. Reyes
on her new book, "Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892"

This book is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of the renowned group of Filipino patriots whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Reyes uses paintings, photographs, novels and letters to show the moral contradictions inherent in their actions and philosophy, and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, as contrasted with sexual mores of the Philippines at that time. Provoked by racism and allegations of effeminacy, the young men asserted their manliness and urbanity through fashionable European dress, careful grooming and refined deportment, and demonstrated their virility through fencing, pistol shooting and dueling.

The talk will be introduced by Prof. Penny Edwards, Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Dr. Reyes is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
5:00 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

This event is free and open to the public.
It is part of the regular IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on Asia.