Scream from the Shadows : The Women's Liberation Movement in Japan /

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Setsu Shigematsu's book is the first to present a sustained history of the formation of man ribu-- a women's liberation movement in Japan -- its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics. Through an in-depth analysis of man ribu, Shigematsu furthers our understanding...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shigematsu, Setsu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Women.
Feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Japon.
Feminisme > Japon.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Women > Japan.
Feminism > Japan.
Japan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: feminism and violence in the womb of empire
  • Introduction: Ūman Ribu as solidarity and difference
  • Origins of the Other/Onna: the violence of motherhood and the birth of Ribu
  • Lineages of the left: death and reincarnation of a revolutionary ideal
  • The liberation of sex, Onna, and eros: the movement and the politics of collective subjectivity
  • Ribu and Tanaka Mitsu: the icon, the center, and its contradictions
  • Ribu's response to the United Red Army: feminist ethics and the politics of violence
  • Epilogue: lessons from the legacy.

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