rspective, the shared resolution of Corey, Gabriella, Leonor and Imelda are to be seen as nationally directed whether marrying who your parents choose for you as in Leonor's case or functioning as "an overachiever who kept impossible workaholic hours and was Marcos's "secret weapon"" as was Imelda's case (Guerrero-Nakpil in Anderson 117). Here Filipino women's interests are dedicated to pleasing others first rather than seeking their own pleasure. This traditonal operationalized role for women, especially as it is manifested in South and Southeastern Asia stands in for the coded term "resolution."
Women's conventional association with beauty accounts for a high percentage of her stylized manipulation as a nationalist symbol. The tradition of foot-binding, a time-honored tradition in China for centuries, helps to illustrate this principle. In China, including parts of Southern China, when a young girl was 6 she would be taken to a foot-binding stool. To soften her feet, a child's feet might first be soaked in a broth of boiled monkey bones. Next a co
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