Scream from the Shadows: The Womens Liberation Movement in Japan

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More than forty years ago a women's liberation movement called "man 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 "man ribu"'s formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan.

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"With Scream from the Shadows we at last have feminist voices from Japan that are not tethered to the Euro-American liberal tenets of area studies. Bracingly candid and self-reflective, Scream from the Shadows speaks directly to the post-9-11 moment of liberal feminisms affinity with militarized and other modes of state violence. It dares us to make critical transnational feminist inquiries urgently relevant to all our ongoing transformative projects." Lisa Yoneyama, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

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Setsu Shigematsu is assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (Minnesota, 2010).