The Women of Libo's Resistance and Negotiation for Empowerment: An Ethnography in a Small-Scale Fishing Community in Panukulan, Quezon Province, Philippines
Date of Award
5-1-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts major in Sociology
First Advisor
Melissa Q. Navarra, PhD
Abstract
Studies on women in fisheries focus on roles and contributions, whether their roles and contributions are undervalued or recognized. As studies of women in the fisheries sector center on how social structures constrained women to further subjugation, the investigation of women's empowerment, as reflected in their resistance and negotiation against inequalities, needs further analysis using reflexive ethnography and the diary method. This study found the creation and recreation of gender inequalities as traditional gender roles, gender stereotypes, and expectations persist in a small-scale fishing village at Barangay Libo, Panukulan, Quezon Province. Women’s day-to-day experience in doing undervalued household work, as well as the culture of violence in the community through intimate partner violence, rape, sexual intimidation, and arranged and forced marriages altogether, victimized them. Further, amidst these victimizations, this study uncovered tactics of overt resistance as a juncture for empowerment and their collaboration practices as a coping strategy which they mobilized and navigated to confront and challenge oppression, despite these structural constraints. This study found that women trained in specific empowerment training can actualize their learning as they become leaders, while untrained women also created empowerment practices. Finally, this study suggests that women empowerment training programs must include techniques to resist rape, sexual intimidation, intimate partner violence, and unequal housework, incorporate learnings about women attaining higher education, and support their children's education and ownership of properties and skills development can empower women.
Recommended Citation
Lobrino, Josephus B., (2023). The Women of Libo's Resistance and Negotiation for Empowerment: An Ethnography in a Small-Scale Fishing Community in Panukulan, Quezon Province, Philippines. Archīum.ATENEO.
https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/894
