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By Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo
Published by Foundation for Nationalist Studies, ©2001.
About the book
This is the story of a remarkable man who, by the force of his ideas and the strength of his own example, showed his people what it means to be a Filipino in the nationalist sense of the word. This story is at the same time an intellectual biography, tracing the evolution of Renato Constantino’s thoughts not only through his published works as a student editor, professional journalist, prominent diplomat, orthodox historian, and relentless social critic, but also through his unpublished memoirs and unfinished manuscripts. It is also history, since the subject’s individual journey is framed within the context of his social milieu during the “red thirties,” the Japanese occupation, the Cold War and residual witch-hunting of the fifies and early sixties, the turbulent seventies, the dark days of martial law, and the Aquino, Ramos, and Estrada periods. For the more private and personal details of Renato Constantinos life, many of which will be revealed to the public for the first time, this work relies mainly on major inputs from his wife and lifelong collaborator, Letizia Roxas Constantino, as well as interviews conducted by the author with his brother and sister, children, grandchildren, close friends and colleagues.
About the author
Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, at 18, was jolted out of adolescent complacency an into street activism after reading Renato Constantino’s The Filipinos in the Philippines in l969. Since then, she has been an avid student of his many works. In 1978, Prof. Constantino became her adviser for her masteral thesis; she also started working with him on various projects, a role she played until his illness in 1998.
In 1984, she came out with her first book, The Manipulated Press-A History of Philippine Journalism Since 1945, which was based on her masteral thesis. Her other major works include The Philippines-Debt and Poverty (published by Oxfam UK, 1992), Tinig at Kapangyarihan-Mga Kuwentong Buhay ng Kababaihang Manggagawa sa Bahay (her doctoral dissertation published by University of the Philippines Press, 1999), Carrying the Burden of the World-Women Reflecting on the Effects of the Crisis on Women and Girls (co-edited by Jeanne Frances Illo and published by the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Srudies, 1999), and Transforming the Mainstream-Building a Gender-Responsive Bureaucracy in the Philippines 1975-1998, co-authored with Jurgette A. Honculada and published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, Bangkok, 2000.
Dr. Ofreneo is with the faculty of the Women and Development Program, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman. She remains an advocate of national sovereignty while continuing to immerse herself in the causes and concerns of grassroots women.
Description: 312 pages ; 28 x 21.5 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 971-8741-23-2
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