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  • Failed Families, Unfailing Mothers The Dissolution of Cohabitation

    by Paul Mathews ...
    There is a dearth of information on cohabitation and the 13 million single parent families in the Philippines. Our understanding of the plight of abandoned families following dissolution of cohabitation is pre-embryonic. A sizeable proportion of the millions of single (mostly) mothers desperately struggle to survive. Limited policies address cohabitation or single parenthood. This book details in ... Read more

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  • Travellers in Taiwan: Reflections of Formosa

    by Shi-Hui Lee, Paul Mathews ...
    What do "foreigners" think of Taiwan ? How long do they stay ? What do they do ? Are Taiwanese really friendly & smart ? Should Taiwan be part of China ?These questions and curiosities are answered in this study, the first of its kind in Taiwan.The government will hate it, you will love it !Find out what these strange "white monkeys" get up to in this Formosa…..I like Taiwan; I am really ... Read more

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  • Bankrolling Poverty

    by Paul Mathews ...
    A brutal but uplifting story of survival. Cielo, a Filipina sex-worker, works hard just to survive. But she would not even be a footnote in the mainstream telling of poverty in the Philippines. She would have been overlooked because she's a woman, a puta, and poor. Nonetheless, her life is a lens through which we can clearly view the horrors of neo-colonialism and the brutality of patronage that ... Read more

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  • A Virus of Everything

    by Paul Mathews ...
    A new virus was sweeping the globe. How far would it challenge or sweep aside the endless diseases of desire, of human yearnings—of love, lust, passion, greed, ambition, selfishness, and calamities of poverty, tempest and soullessness?Mark was soul sick. Once again he was alone, and hence vulnerable. His psyche was howling for a new role in life he could call his own, his soul was screaming to be ... Read more

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  • The Magical Shahua and Fifty Shades of Fur

    by Paul Mathews ...
    Shahua is a very magical cat, who can cross time and space, bringing luck and good fortune to those hoomins who deserve it. In Taiwan Mark and Kitty save Shahua from certain death. She/he magically brings good fortune to Kitty and her family of cats. Twenty years later Mark meets Ping, "the cat lady" in Australia. He helps her feed the cats, and coming to know her they fall in love. But Ping ... Read more

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  • Mabait: A Foothold in Life

    by Paul Mathews ...
    The lives of Cielo, a sex-worker, and Angie, a bureaucrat, briefly but antagonistically intersect in Manila. Several years later Angie seeks the help of Cielo, but neither are aware now of who the other is. They both come to realize that each has barely a foothold in life and that they both want the same things: family, love, respect, dignity. In their respective struggles to attain these, each ... Read more

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  • My Riddle Book

    by Jhenna Umali, Paul Mathews ...
    This short book provides some 170 riddles, suitable for children 6-12 years of age. It contains some funny and at times tricky riddles, with illustrations on almost every page. Your kids will love trying these out on their friends and family, and bring more than a giggle to everyone.Net proceeds go to the Foundation for Single Pinay Moms in College ... Read more

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  • Princes of Beauty. Boy Prostitution in Sydney

    by Paul Mathews ...
    This book address the yawning gap in both academic and general knowledge of male prostitution (in Sydney, Australia), with some comparison with UK & USA. Its central argument is that such prostitution is in part motivated by an aspiration to achieve, and that male prostitutes and their clients cannot be considered in purely psychological terms as sexually deviant or mentally aberrant. A Capitalist ... Read more

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  • The Habitus of Fertility: A Tale of Two Families

    by Paul Mathews ...
    Most books give some baiting information without giving away the plot details. Unfortunately, this book cannot. Why? Because you are part of a social experiment.Certainly you can cheat, by jumping ahead, or you can trust me, and yourself, and follow the linear structure I have provided: Read Part 1, as a novel, as it is indeed, which will then be explained in Part 2. See if you twigged to it….Part ... Read more

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  • Are They Serious? The Discourses of Family Planning, Bio-Citizenship and Nationalism in the Philippines

    by Paul Mathews ...
    This book explores the discourses of bio-medicine (ie. Family Planning), nationalism and citizenship specifically in the Philippines. Little has been researched into how the biomedical discourse has helped constitute the nature of citizenship of the Filipino for the purpose of building a nation-State; that is, who is a "medically" proper and fit person to be a citizen of and to reproduce the ... Read more

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  • Education and EFL in Taiwan: Policy and Practice

    by Paul Mathews ...
    The various chapters of this book focus on systemic problems and issues that lay much—but not all—of the ills of EFL teaching/learning and education generally in Taiwan squarely at the door of MoE and the various teaching institutions. Beginning with a brief overview of pre-school education and EFL, Part 1 focuses on direct observations of and reports on numerous actual teaching episodes in ... Read more

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  • Male Prostitution: Two Monographs

    by Paul Mathews ...
    The first paper here describes salient aspects of male prostitution of Ermita (Manila, Philippines) in the 1980s and '90s. I suggest various reasons for such prostitution, how the boys reconcile their activities with church and societal morality, and also how they construct their sexual identity. The second paper is a critique of "Being A Prostitute", in which I argue that certain categories of ... Read more

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