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“Thinking about a fact already means changing that fact.”

Colette Guillaumin,Women & Theories about Society, Racism, Sexism, Power & Ideology,1995

Welcome to the Feminist Legal Theory & Practice website. This site is linked to my UPLAW-131 class website. I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines where I teach at the College of Law. Below are links to recent work, projects I have recently been involved in, as well as links to resources on Feminist Legal Theory, Feminism, and Women's Human Rights available on-line. This site also has links to resources on the web as well as my blog, "HERESY". Click here to visit my LAW-131 class website . Send me email :) I also blog at: RH Reality Check. Org

Recent work :abstract/details

post date	details	title
I blog twice a month	See Global Perspectives	Carolina Ruiz Austria at RH Reality Check
03.10.2007	posted at Heresy	Beyond Limits: Human Rights gets a dose of Feminism (Paper read at the ISIS-WAGI-Womenlead Fourm at MIRIAM College)
12.01.2006	UP CIDS	Say it Isn't Sex: The Politics of Sex Education in the Philippines (Upcoming: Center for Integrative Studies Journal, 2006 December, University of the Philippines
10.19.2006	full paper	Exploring the theoretical and political context of the discourse on women's rights [in relation to human rights], Plenary Paper, 6 th National Women's Studies Association of the Philippines.19-21 October 2006, Davao City, Ateneo de Davao.
07.25.2006	posted at Heresy	Refelections on Feminisms of Today: Unities and Diversities (Presented at ISIS-International Global Feminist Strategies Forum, 25 July 2006)
08.30.2006	abstract	Sex and the State: A Theoretical Framework for Strategic Litigation in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the Philippines for Womenlead Foundation, Inc.
06.30.2006	abstract	Church, State and Sexuality in the Philippines: Secular Rights and Monopolies of Morality?
02.12.2006	abstract	Situating Gender in Social Change: A Review of Gender Integration among ALGs
02.08.2006	Lexington, U.S.A.	Conflicts & Interests: Trafficking in Women and the Policies on Migration and Trafficking in the Philippines
12.31.2005	DAWN	The Tragic Tale of the Philippine women's movement's engagement in law reform
10.30.2004	RHM, U.K.	The Church, State and Women's Bodies in the Context of Religious Fundamentalism in the Philippines

Heresy

Heresy is from the Greek word "hareomai" meaning choice or a faction of dissident believers.

Kafeminista

Kafeminista is a site I designed for a special fund-raiser with Womenlead Foundation, Inc. but it also pokes fun at our "dedication" (READ: not addiction) to the Barako (Liberica) brew. It is a site that will amuse coffee drinkers, especially feminist coffee lovers.

Featured Resources on-line

Here are some links to Projects I recently had an opportunity to be involved in.

(As A Global Perspectives Blogger for SEAsia) RH Reality Check.Org
(As IPPF Consultant) HIV-AIDS Report Card on Young Women and Girls, August 2006
(As Stakeholder participant/Draft Reviewer) Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in the Philippines, by Singh, S. et.al., New York, Guttmacher Institute,2006.
(As Peer Reviewer) Fetal Discourses and the Politics of the Womb by Michael Lim Tan, RHM, Vol 12 No.24, November 2004 Supplement

Feminist classics on-line

Here are a few available links to some feminist classics .

Womenlead Foundation Inc. Publications

Email Womenlead and inquire about the following and other publications...

Heresy is a resource book which includes The documentation of Womenlead's 2003 December forum exploring women's issues, sexuality and religion with Sr. Helen Graham (Catholic Theologian and Maryknoll sister), Yasmin Lao (Muslim Feminist and former Professor), Rev.Erah Cabillah (Philippine Indepent Church).

Women's Journal on Law and Culture

Monographs 2005

Primers 2005

Women's Ways to Empowerment (E-Book Training Manual)

Posters