Download or read book Filipino Peasant Women written by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Filipina from the peasant class herself, the author has unprecedented access to women workers in this militarized society as well as rich insights into the lives of Third World women. Her interviews with members of the National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines and its local chapter, Peasant Women of Mindoro, detail women's landlessness, poverty, and disempowerment.