{"title":"Manuel L. Quezon and the Filipino women’s suffrage movement of 1937","authors":"Veronica C. Alporha","doi":"10.52518/2021-08valpor","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Manuel L. Quezon is often credited by historians like Encarnacion Alzona (1937) as a staunch advocate of women’s right to vote. Indeed, the history of the struggle for women’s suffrage often highlights the role that Quezon played in terms of supporting the 1937 plebiscite as the president of the Philippine Commonwealth. Various print media of the period like dailies and magazines depicted him, and consequently, the success of the women’s suffrage movement, in the same light (e.g., Philippine Graphic, Manila Bulletin). However, closer scrutiny of Quezon’s speeches, letters, and biography in relation to other pertinent primary sources would reveal that Quezon was, at best, ambivalent, on the cause of the suffragists. His appreciation of the women’s suffrage’s merits was tied and anchored on certain political gains that he could acquire from it. In contrast to the appreciation of his contemporaries like Rafael Palma, Quezon’s appreciation of the women’s right to vote was based on patronage politics and not on the view that the right to suffrage is a right of women and not a privilege. His support for the cause was aimed at putting himself at the forefront of this landmark legislation and thus the real champions of the cause—the women—at the sidelines","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"92 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Plaridel","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2021-08valpor","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Manuel L. Quezon is often credited by historians like Encarnacion Alzona (1937) as a staunch advocate of women’s right to vote. Indeed, the history of the struggle for women’s suffrage often highlights the role that Quezon played in terms of supporting the 1937 plebiscite as the president of the Philippine Commonwealth. Various print media of the period like dailies and magazines depicted him, and consequently, the success of the women’s suffrage movement, in the same light (e.g., Philippine Graphic, Manila Bulletin). However, closer scrutiny of Quezon’s speeches, letters, and biography in relation to other pertinent primary sources would reveal that Quezon was, at best, ambivalent, on the cause of the suffragists. His appreciation of the women’s suffrage’s merits was tied and anchored on certain political gains that he could acquire from it. In contrast to the appreciation of his contemporaries like Rafael Palma, Quezon’s appreciation of the women’s right to vote was based on patronage politics and not on the view that the right to suffrage is a right of women and not a privilege. His support for the cause was aimed at putting himself at the forefront of this landmark legislation and thus the real champions of the cause—the women—at the sidelines
曼努埃尔·奎松(Manuel L. Quezon)经常被Encarnacion Alzona(1937)等历史学家誉为女性投票权的坚定倡导者。事实上,争取妇女选举权的历史经常突出奎松作为菲律宾联邦总统在支持1937年公民投票方面所发挥的作用。这一时期的各种印刷媒体,如日报和杂志,都以同样的方式描绘了他,从而描绘了妇女选举权运动的成功(例如《菲律宾图报》、《马尼拉公报》)。然而,仔细研究奎松的演讲、信件和传记以及其他相关的原始资料,就会发现奎松对妇女参政主义者的事业充其量是模棱两可的。他对妇女选举权的价值的赞赏是与他可以从中获得的某些政治利益联系在一起的。与同时代的拉斐尔·帕尔马(Rafael Palma)相比,奎松对妇女投票权的重视是基于赞助政治,而不是基于选举权是妇女的权利而不是特权的观点。他对这项事业的支持是为了让自己站在这项具有里程碑意义的立法的最前沿,从而使这项事业的真正拥护者——妇女们——站在一旁