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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808594603321

Autore

Shigematsu Setsu

Titolo

Scream from the shadows [[electronic resource] ] : the women's liberation movement in Japan / / Setsu Shigematsu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4693-0

0-8166-8012-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0952

Soggetti

Feminism - Japan

Women - Japan

Women - Japan - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface: Feminism and Violence in the Womb of Empire; Introduction: UÌ„man Ribu as Solidarity and Difference; I. GENEALOGIES AND VIOLATIONS; 1 Origins of the Other/Onna: The Violence of Motherhood and the Birth of Ribu; 2 Lineages of the Left: Death and Reincarnation of a Revolutionary Ideal; II. MOVEMENTS AND MEDIUMS; 3 The Liberation of Sex, Onna, and Eros: The Movement and the Politics of Collective Subjectivity; 4 Ribu and Tanaka Mitsu: The Icon, the Center, and Its Contradictions; III. BETWEEN FEMINISM AND VIOLENCE

5 Ribu's Response to the United Red Army: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of ViolenceEpilogue: Lessons from the Legacy; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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 uman ribu 's formation, 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 ,