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Ladies Lunch and Other Ways to Wholeness
LADIES' LUNCHES (sometimes as long as four hours!), the authors claim, save wowen's lives because they provide catharsis, women-bonding, networking, self-help, ritual and celebration. They also lead to personal growth and wholeness.
In this collection of personal essays--hatched over many leisurely lunches, two women writers look with humor and reflection at the diverse strands of their sweet and rocky lives. They share a horde of facts and fancies, secrets and opinions, and hard-earned lessons on relationships and self-acceptance. Also, whether you like it or not, their pictures, recipes, greeting cards, diary entries and sketches.
Culture vulture GILDA CORDERO-FERNANDO, 64, is a publisher of a trail-blazing line of Filipiniana. She recently received the Araw ng Maynila award for literature and the CCP Gawad award for outstanding contribution to publishing. Her recent work are The Soul Book, 1991, (co-author) and Philippine Food and Life, 1991.
Widely-travelled MARIEL N. FRANCISCO, 48, was recently in Frankfurt for a women writers and publishers workshop sponsored by the International PEN Women Writers' Committee. An English professor, metaphysics buff, and believer in holistic health, she has contributed many articles to magazines and books and co-authored the best selling History of the Burgis.
227 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Gilda Cordero-Fernando
33 books42 followersGilda Cordero-Fernando was a multiawarded writer, publisher and cultural icon from the Philippines. She was born in Manila, has a B.A. from St. Theresa’s College-Manila, and an M.A. from the Ateneo de Manila University.
She started off as a writer and was awarded the Palanca Award for Literature several times. She also wrote and illustrated children’s books.Her short stories are collected in The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker (1962) and A Wilderness of Sweets (1973).
She had a very rich life as a publisher. In 1978 she launched GCF Books, which published landmark books on Philippine cultural history: Streets of Manila (1977), Turn of the Century (1978), Philippine Ancestral Houses (1980), Being Filipino (1981), The History of the Burgis (1987), Folk Architecture (1989), and The Soul Book (1991).
Cordero-Fernando also wore numerous other hats as a visual artist, fashion designer, playwright, art curator, and producer. In February 2000, she produced Luna: An Aswang Romance. In 2001 she produced Pinoy Pop Culture, the book and the show, for Bench.
In 1994, she received a Cultural Center of the Philippines (Gawad CCP) for her lifetime achievements in literature and publishing.
(from wikipedia.org.)
She started off as a writer and was awarded the Palanca Award for Literature several times. She also wrote and illustrated children’s books.Her short stories are collected in The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker (1962) and A Wilderness of Sweets (1973).
She had a very rich life as a publisher. In 1978 she launched GCF Books, which published landmark books on Philippine cultural history: Streets of Manila (1977), Turn of the Century (1978), Philippine Ancestral Houses (1980), Being Filipino (1981), The History of the Burgis (1987), Folk Architecture (1989), and The Soul Book (1991).
Cordero-Fernando also wore numerous other hats as a visual artist, fashion designer, playwright, art curator, and producer. In February 2000, she produced Luna: An Aswang Romance. In 2001 she produced Pinoy Pop Culture, the book and the show, for Bench.
In 1994, she received a Cultural Center of the Philippines (Gawad CCP) for her lifetime achievements in literature and publishing.
(from wikipedia.org.)
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