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

Index

I N D E X abjection, 219n6 abolitionist feminist politics, 29, 209n114, 209n118 abortion: child killing linked to, 25, 26; and Eugenic Protection Law, 225n70; laws, Japan, 26–27, 208n108, 224n68; Ōhashi Yukako on, 208n109; politics of, 73; ribu stance on, 26, 74, 86, 88–89; state control of, 225n76. See also Eugenic Protection Law Abu Ghraib: torture scandal, x, 190n6 activism: direct action, xix Aida Fumi, 24 Aida Kōbō (ribu activist-run press), 102, 251n21 Ainu, xxiii, xxiv, 74 Aki Shobō, 73 Akiyama Yōko, xxvii, 104, 110, 174, 226n78, 229n8; on “Liberation from the Toilet,” 233n50; on Tanaka, 240n126 Albright, Madeline, x, 190n2 Alliance of Fighting Women (ribu group), 85 Amano Michimi, 120, 236n84 Anpo protests, xxiii, 8, 33–38, 209n2, 212n30. See also Group of Fighting Women; New Left, Japanese; U.S.–Japan Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty anticommunism: and onna, 69–72; U.S. foreign policy, xxiii, 189n1 anti-imperialism, ix, xxv, 15, 19, 192n6; and capitalism, xvii; of Matsui, 176; of New Left, xxxi, 69; of ribu, xxi, 19, 47, 69, 71, 74, 86, 87–89, 93, 94–95, 177, 221n30; of student movements , 38, 39, 40; and United States, xxiii; of Vietnam antiwar movement, 47, 70. See also imperialism; New Left, Japanese; ribu Antiwar Youth Committee (Hansen), 211n18 Aoshiba no Kai, 90–91, 99–101 area studies, xvii Arima Makiko, 83, 224n54 Asahi Journal, 81, 222n32, 223n48 Asahi Shinbun, 10, 17, 92, 106, 145, 149, 194n20, 242n10 Asakawa Mariko, 119–20, 235n72 Asatori Sumie, 101–2, 228n122. See also Iwatsuki Sumie Ashura, 155–56, 245n50 256 I N D E X Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center, 193n11 Asian Women’s Committee Who Fight Discrimination=Aggression, 14, 16, 203n60 Asian Women’s Fund, 176, 252n27 Asian Women’s Resource Center, 13, 26, 65, 67, 203n62 Beheiren, xxxi, 40–42, 52, 212n22; antihierarchical structure of, 41, 44, 84, 224n66, 237n94; direct action, emphasis on, 41, 46; as neo–New Left movement, 40; radicalization of, 212n30. See also New Left, Japanese biopolitics: of nation-state, 6 black liberation, 60, 110; appropriation of, 232n29 Black Power, xxv bodies, disabled, 79, 80, 90, 91, 219n6; and ribu, 67, 79, 90, 91, 99–101, 178, 219n5. See also Yonezu Tomoko bodies, women: state control of, 73, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93; and subjectivity, xiii; violence against, 25–26 Brown, Wendy, 88 Buckley, Sandra, 200n34 Bund (communist student organization), 37, 38, 211n16 burakumin, 227n99 capitalism: and imperialism, xvii; and individualism, 93; and inequality, xvi; Japanese, 4; women, control of, 11, 28; and women’s labor, 201n37 Chifuren (National Federation of Regional Women’s Organizations), 9, 201n42; aims of, 10 childbirth: and nation, 225n69; politicization of, 21–22 Christian Temperance Union (Kirisutokyō Kyofukai), 12 Chūkaku (New Left sect), 38, 53, 57–59, 144, 211n16, 246n74; Miyaoka, repression of, 60 Chūpiren (neo-ribu group), 88, 118, 225n78, 226n79; on the pill, 235n68 Civil Codes, Meiji, 4–5, 6–7, 196n4; reformation of, 5 Cixous, Hélène, 110, 232n30 class: and race, xi; in ribu, xvi, 10, 47, 15, 114; sex as, 114; of Tanaka, 108, 227n99; in Zenkyōtō, 46, 230n19 Clinton, Hillary Rodham, x Code Pink, 190n7 Cold War, 210n12; and imperialism, xxiii comfort women, xxiii, 18, 175, 251n27; ribu identification with, 48, 49, 67, 176 Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), 210n12 Comintern (Communist International), 210n12 Committee of Asian Women (Ajia Fujin Kaigi), 12, 16, 202n50 Committee to Contact and Prepare for Women’s Liberation (Josei Kaihō Junbi Renraku Kaigi), 18, 89, 219n7. See also Committee to Prepare for Women’s Liberation Committee to Prepare for Women’s Liberation, 67, 72, 103; manifesto, 70, 71, 203n60. See also Committee to Contact and Prepare for Women’s Liberation Committee to Prevent the Revision of the Eugenic Protection Law, 90, 91 communes, 101, 102; JO-JO, 228n122; ribu, xx, xxx, 19–21, 22, 67, 84, 85, 86, 89–90, 99, 119, 223n51 contraception, 73, 102; the pill, 73, 88, 226n78, 226n79, 235n68; ribu activism on, 74, 86, 87, 88, 148. See also abortion counterhegemonic practices, 68, 139; of I N D E X 257 ribu, xii, xxx, xxxii, 68, 169; Tanaka on, 159. See also hegemony critical solidarity, xxxiii, 140, 152–53, 154–55, 169, 170; defined, 150, 243n29; with URA women, 86, 99–100, 139, 150–51, 153, 154, 156–57, 169, 178, 209n118, 243n29, 244n45, 244n49, 245n63. See also ribu, actions and initiatives Davis...