Brave Filipino Women

by Reine Bautista Mercado

Overview

A bundle of two novels and two short stories by bestselling author, Reine Bautista Mercado

 

The bundle includes:

• Felicia Calayan, Defender of Women--a short story about a feisty Filipino lawyer who made it her life mission to rescue abused women from the violence of men. This acts as a prelude to the novel, From the Ribs of Adam
• From the Ribs of Adam, a psychological legal thriller about the effects and complexities of the battered woman syndrome. It delves into the mind of an abused woman suffering from the heavy hands of her husband and asks: what would you do in her place?
• The Lipstick General--a historical war fiction that takes place during the world war two Japanese occupation of the Philippines. A veteran of the war tells her story about how she transformed from a beauty queen into a general in fabulous style.

Bonus:

The Birth of a Babaylan

 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164503826
Publisher:	Meihudie Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	550 KB

About the Author

Reine Bautista Mercado is a devoted writer of feminist literature and a vehement advocate of women's rights, LGBT equality, and social justice in the Philippines and in Southeast and East Asia. After acquiring her degree for languages at the prestigious University of the Philippines with honours, she has been avidly volunteering for many organisations that support her advocacies and uses her skills for languages to connect with many people in Southeast and East Asia. Herself a transgender woman, she devotes her writing to literature that empowers women and members of the LGBT, as well as other minorities in Asia.