Scream from the shadows : the women's liberation movement in Japan / Setsu Shigematsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shigematsu, Setsu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Japan.

Feminism.

Women.

Japan.

Women--Japan.

Women--Japan--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Summary:

More than forty years ago a women's liberation movement called uman ribu was born in Japan amid conditions of radicalism, violence, and imperialist aggression. Setsu Shigematsu's book is the first to present a sustained history of the formation of uman ribu, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of uman ribu, Shigematsu furthers our understanding of Japan's gender-based modernity and imperialism and expands our perspective on transnational liberation and feminist movements worldwide.

In Scream from the Shadows, Shigematsu engages with political philosophy while also contextualizing uman ribu in relation to the Japanese left and New Left as well as anti-Vietnam War and radical student protests. She provides a powerful case study of a complex and contradictory movement with a radical vision of women's liberation and offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the blind spots within our contemporary and dominant views of feminism across their liberal, marxist, radical, Euro-American, postcolonial, and racial boundaries. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Genealogies and Violations

1 Origins of the Other/Onna: The Violence of Motherhood and the Birth of Ribu 3

2 Lineages of the Left: Death and Reincarnation of a Revolutionary Ideal 33

II Movements and Mediums

3 The Liberation of Sex, Onna, and Eros: The Movement and the Politics of Collective Subjectivity 65

4 Ribu and Tanaka Mitsu: The Icon, the Center, and Its Contradictions 103

III Between Feminism and Violence

5 Ribu's Response to the United Red Army: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Violence 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816667581

0816667586

9780816667598

0816667594

OCLC:

759910075