Dr Raquel Reyes
MA (Sussex) PhD (SOAS, London)
Overview
Department of South East Asia
Research Fellow
Department of History
Research Associate
- Name:
- Dr Raquel Reyes
- Email address:
- rr14@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Historical perspectives on sexuality in the Philippines and South East Asia; medicine, culture and society in the colonial Philippines; Philippine literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. British Academy-funded project – Scientific Reason and Sexual Knowledge in 19th century Philippines.
Teaching
Research
Indigenous sexual knowledge, colonial medical culture, and healers and healers and physicians in 19th century Philippines.
Publications
Authored Books
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) Love, Passion and Patriotism: sexuality and the Philippine propaganda movement, 1882-1892. Seattle, Washington; Singapore: NUS Press Singapore in association with University of Washington Press. (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)
Book Chapters
Reyes, Raquel A. G. 'Science, Sex and Superstition: Pregnancy and birth in 19th Century Philippines.' In: Cook, Harold J. and Monnais, Laurence, (eds.), Histories of Medicine in Modern South East Asia. Rodopi, Amsterdam: Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine Rodopi. (In Press)
Articles
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2009) 'Botany and zoology in the late seventeenth-century Philippines: the work of Georg Josef Camel, S.J. (1661-1706).' Archives of Natural History, 36 (2). pp. 262-276.
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2009) 'Sex, Masturbation and Foetal Death: Filipino Physicians and Medical Mythology in the Late Nineteenth Century.' Social History of Medicine, Advanc .
Reyes, Raquel A. G. and Rato, Montira (2007) 'Introduction: Gender and Sexuality in modernising Southeast Asia, 16th-20th centuries.' Manusya Journal of Humanities (14).
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2007) 'Rizal, Sex, and Civilisation.' Manusya Journal of Humanities (14). pp. 56-66.
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2000) 'Private Lives, Public Passions: the representation of motherhood in Juan Luna’s art.' Asian Studies, 36 (1). pp. 1-23.
Conference or Workshop Items
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) History of Medicine in the Philippines: a survey of the field. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on History of Medicine in the Philippines edited by Angel Aparicio.
Book Reviews
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) 'Review of Mark M. Smith, 'Sensory History' (Berg Publishers, 2007).' Times Higher Education Supplement .
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2008) 'Review of Warwick Anderson, 'Colonial Pathologies: American tropical medicine, race and hygiene in the Philippines' (Duke University Press, 2006).' Journal of Medical History, 52 (3).
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2007) 'Review of Vicente L. Rafael, 'The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the technics of translation in the Spanish Philippines' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).' Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs .
Reyes, Raquel A. G. (2006) 'Review of Benedict Anderson, 'Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the anti-colonial imagination' (London: Verso, 2005).' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16 (3). pp. 339-341.
