“The Revolution Will Not Be Translated: Transfiguring American Feminism in 1970s–1980s Japan”

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“The Revolution Will Not Be Translated: Transfiguring American Feminism in 1970s–1980s Japan” Welker, James

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In Japan, the year 1970 saw a new wave of feminist activism soon called ūman ribu (women’s lib). While the mainstream media portrayed the ribu movement as an American import, local conditions were the driving force behind ribu activism, which first took shape among women with scant knowledge of or connections to nascent American second wave feminism. Even as interest was expressed within the movement in women’s activism abroad, and techniques such as consciousness raising were borrowed, most ribu discourse and activism was local in focus. Translations of feminist writing from the US and elsewhere would, however, quickly come to play a significant, though largely indirect, role in ribu discourse. In this talk I will survey the production, reception, influence, and transfiguration within and beyond the ribu movement of translated second wave feminist writing, including Notes from the Second Year (1969), Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973) and The Hite Report (1976).

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Title	“The Revolution Will Not Be Translated: Transfiguring American Feminism in 1970s–1980s Japan”
Creator	Welker, James
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
Date Issued	2011-12-21
Description	In Japan, the year 1970 saw a new wave of feminist activism soon called ūman ribu (women’s lib). While the mainstream media portrayed the ribu movement as an American import, local conditions were the driving force behind ribu activism, which first took shape among women with scant knowledge of or connections to nascent American second wave feminism. Even as interest was expressed within the movement in women’s activism abroad, and techniques such as consciousness raising were borrowed, most ribu discourse and activism was local in focus. Translations of feminist writing from the US and elsewhere would, however, quickly come to play a significant, though largely indirect, role in ribu discourse. In this talk I will survey the production, reception, influence, and transfiguration within and beyond the ribu movement of translated second wave feminist writing, including Notes from the Second Year (1969), Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973) and The Hite Report (1976).
Subject	Feminist; Feminism; 1970-1980; Ribu; Notes from the Second Year; Our Bodies, Ourselves; The Hite Report
Geographic Location	Japan
Type	Sound
Language	eng
Notes	The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) offered a weekly lecture series for the fall and winter semesters. This series brought together scholars that focussed on issues related to women and the study of gender/sexuality. The series included post doctoral and visiting scholars, faculty both from CWGS and additional departments engaged in research relevant to the mission of the centre.
Series	Centre for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS) Lecture Series
Date Available	2011-12-21
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
DOI	10.14288/1.0052310
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39816
Affiliation	Women's and Gender Studies, Centre for
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Postdoctoral
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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