Mga Ina ng bayan : life stories of Filipino and Japanese women community leaders. / Amaryllis T. Torres.

The reader of the life stories of five Filipino and six Japanese women community leaders in this book will embark on a journey that traverses the mental and physical spaces of exeptional females working in extraordinary circumtances-mga ina ng bayan (mothers of the country) by virtue of their sreadfast dedication to the advancement of their communities and their gender as grassroots leaders. Dr. Amaryllis T. Torres, Marlene dela Cruz and Thelma Magcuro of the U.P. College of Social Work and Community Development expertly capture the living testaments and heartwarming experiences of the women community leaders and interpret them within a carefully constructed theoretical framework that illuminate the essential role that they perform in nation-building. An enriching, scholarly, inspiring and movingly human research study.