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More than forty years ago a women's liberation movement called uman 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 uman ribu 's formation, its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics across and beyond Japan. Through an in-depth analysis of uman 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 Sc

Setsu Shigematsu's book is the first to present a sustained history of the formation of man ribu-- a women's liberation movement in Japan -- its political philosophy, and its contributions to feminist politics. Through an in-depth analysis of man ribu, Shigematsu furthers our understanding of Japan's gender-based modernity and imperialism and expands our perspective on transnational liberation and feminist movements worldwide.

"Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former and current territories of Japan and the United States, such as Guam, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and Korea, demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial subordination-and their gendered and racialized processes-shapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance"--Provided by publisher

Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former and current territories of Japan and the United States, demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial subordination shapes bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance.

Abstract: This dialogue brings together feminists with decades of experience in abolitionist work to discuss what it means to take up abolition feminisms within Asian American Studies today. Margo Okazawa-Rey dialogues with Priya Kandaswamy and Setsu Shigematsu about who we need to become to create a "culture of life" and what it means to embody and practice abolitionist values in the present-continuous. Together we discuss the tensions between Asian American as an identity and abolition as a politics that seeks to dismantle America. While addressing the limits of identity politics, we ask about how Asian diasporic subjects are situated within systems of anti-Black state violence and interrogate our own relationship to the nation-state. Based on our experiences in different movement spaces, we suggest some ways to reimagine and reconceptualize how we relate to each other and what might be useful and/or dangerous theoretical frameworks that have emerged from Asian American Studies for our praxis of abolition feminism.

Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This eye-opening work brings together scores of voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, stories, reports, and manifestos, they offer an unprecedented view of the realities of women's experiences as they try to sustain relations with children and family on the outside, struggle for healthcare, fight to define and achieve basic rights, deal with irrational sentencing systems, remake life after prison; and more. Together, these powerful writings are an intense and visceral examination of life behind bars for women, and, taken together, they underscore the failures of imagination and policy that have too often underwritten our current prison system