Kumakalam na sikmura: Hunger as Filipino women's awakening to ecofeminist consciousness

• Main Author: Peracullo, Jeane C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Ecofeminism > Philippines; Women and the environment > Philippines; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3775; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4777/type/native/viewcontent/jfemistudreli.31.2.25
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the Philippines, The vernacular kumakalam na sikmura (literally translated as "gnawing of the stomach") is used as an image of hunger, a profound experiential event. Hunger as an embodied experience highlights the reciprocity of the body and the world, and the vulnerability of our embod...