Setsu Shigematsu
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816667581
- eISBN:
- 9781452946931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816667581.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter talks about one of Ūman ribu’s key activists, Tanaka Mitsu. During the 1970s, Tanaka appeared at leftist political gatherings and distributed handwritten manifestos that called for the ...
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This chapter talks about one of Ūman ribu’s key activists, Tanaka Mitsu. During the 1970s, Tanaka appeared at leftist political gatherings and distributed handwritten manifestos that called for the “liberation of eros” and the “liberation of sex”. The six-page pamphlet, entitled Liberation from the Toilet, became the most well-known manifesto of the ribu movement. From 1970 to 1975, Tanaka was involved in organizing most of ribu’s major activities and became the most visible iconoclast, playing pivotal roles in the movement such as spokeswoman, philosopher, writer, and leader. At the beginning of the ribu, Tanaka forwarded a comprehensive and cogent argument of why women’s liberation had to be the liberation of sex, making her a forerunner theorist of the movement.Less
This chapter talks about one of Ūman ribu’s key activists, Tanaka Mitsu. During the 1970s, Tanaka appeared at leftist political gatherings and distributed handwritten manifestos that called for the “liberation of eros” and the “liberation of sex”. The six-page pamphlet, entitled Liberation from the Toilet, became the most well-known manifesto of the ribu movement. From 1970 to 1975, Tanaka was involved in organizing most of ribu’s major activities and became the most visible iconoclast, playing pivotal roles in the movement such as spokeswoman, philosopher, writer, and leader. At the beginning of the ribu, Tanaka forwarded a comprehensive and cogent argument of why women’s liberation had to be the liberation of sex, making her a forerunner theorist of the movement.
Setsu Shigematsu
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816667581
- eISBN:
- 9781452946931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816667581.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter examines Ūman ribu’s relationship to the United Red Army (URA), a group considered to be Japan’s most violent domestic underground revolutionary sect. It discusses the approach of one of ...
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This chapter examines Ūman ribu’s relationship to the United Red Army (URA), a group considered to be Japan’s most violent domestic underground revolutionary sect. It discusses the approach of one of ribu’s key activist, Tanaka Mitsu, on different manifestations of violence, and demonstrates how Tanaka’s philosophy of liberation involves the principles of contradiction and disorder, contingency, violence, relationality, and eros. The chapter concludes with an examination of Tanaka’s approach to the URA’s female leader, Nagata Hiroko, as a powerful and symbolic refinement of ribu’s intervention during one of Japan’s crucial moments in political history.Less
This chapter examines Ūman ribu’s relationship to the United Red Army (URA), a group considered to be Japan’s most violent domestic underground revolutionary sect. It discusses the approach of one of ribu’s key activist, Tanaka Mitsu, on different manifestations of violence, and demonstrates how Tanaka’s philosophy of liberation involves the principles of contradiction and disorder, contingency, violence, relationality, and eros. The chapter concludes with an examination of Tanaka’s approach to the URA’s female leader, Nagata Hiroko, as a powerful and symbolic refinement of ribu’s intervention during one of Japan’s crucial moments in political history.
Setsu Shigematsu
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816667581
- eISBN:
- 9781452946931
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816667581.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
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. This book presents a sustained history ...
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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. This book presents a sustained history of man ribu’s formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of man ribu, this book furthers our understanding of Japan’s gender-based modernity and imperialism and expands our perspective on transnational liberation and feminist movements worldwide. This book engages with political philosophy while also contextualizing the movement in relation to the Japanese left and New Left as well as the anti-Vietnam War and radical student movements. It examines the controversial figure Tanaka Mitsu, man ribu’s most influential activist, and the movement’s internal dynamics. The book highlights man ribu’s distinctive approach to the relationship of women—and women’s liberation—to violence: specifically, the movement’s embrace of violent women who were often at the margins of society and its recognition of women’s complicity in violence against other women.Less
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. This book presents a sustained history of man ribu’s formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of man ribu, this book furthers our understanding of Japan’s gender-based modernity and imperialism and expands our perspective on transnational liberation and feminist movements worldwide. This book engages with political philosophy while also contextualizing the movement in relation to the Japanese left and New Left as well as the anti-Vietnam War and radical student movements. It examines the controversial figure Tanaka Mitsu, man ribu’s most influential activist, and the movement’s internal dynamics. The book highlights man ribu’s distinctive approach to the relationship of women—and women’s liberation—to violence: specifically, the movement’s embrace of violent women who were often at the margins of society and its recognition of women’s complicity in violence against other women.
