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3%OFFSetsu Shigematsu - Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan - 9780816667598 - V9780816667598
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Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan

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Description for Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.

More than forty years ago a women’s liberation movement called ūman 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 ūman ribu’s formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of ūman 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 the movement in relation to the Japanese ... Read more

Scream from the Shadows provides a powerful case study of a complex and contradictory movement with a radical vision of women’s liberation. It 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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816667598
SKU
V9780816667598
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99-1

About Setsu Shigematsu
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).

Reviews for Scream from the Shadows: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan
"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 feminism’s affinity with militarized and other modes of state violence. It dares us to make critical transnational feminist inquiries ... Read more

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