Abstract:
The study highlights the active participation of women in the housing rights
movement, showing that women are able to juggle political and social responsibilities
with their domestic and economic role to their families. This aims to break away from
the masculinist narratives of social transformation. Through a Marxist-Feminist lens
with which the accounts are to be analyzed, the study accentuates the liberating role of
women where, first and foremost, they struggle for the liberation of their class base
which will ultimately liberate them from gender oppression.
Moreover, literature on the Philippine housing movement, including the
insurgent housing practices conducted by activists from the urban poor sector, are
lacking and are not documented enough. Additionally, the Occupy Bulacan Movement
has been a transformative event for the housing resistance, yet there is also a significant
lack in literature about it. Media coverage and state propaganda also paint a pejorative
image on the occupation and to the members of the urban poor sector who participated
in it, especially on the National Democratic Mass Organization (NDMO) KADAMAY
that led the resistance. Data produced from this study address all these.
