Table of Contents

Contents
Preface: Feminism and Violence in the Womb of EmpireIntroduction: Uman 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 IdealII. 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 Violence Epilogue: Lessons from the LegacyAcknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the Author

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

"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 urgently relevant to all our ongoing transformative projects." -Lisa Yoneyama, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto