Imagined gendered memories
摘要
This chapter examines two films depicting the participation of two sexually marginalized figures in Philippine society—rural women and gays—in the revolutionary struggle against the dictatorship. Barber’s Tales (2013) chronicles the political awakening of a middle-aged widow from a small village against the backdrop of rural patriarchy. Lihis [Wayward] (2013) centers on gay guerrillas who pursue a romantic relationship amidst the military violence of the Marcos dictatorship and the homophobia within the revolutionary movement. These films serve as imagined gendered memories that portray how gender and sexual struggles figure in the socio-political contestations between the dictatorship and the revolution.