Sento (was Kawase)

[Abe-Nornes]

>sometimes, as a
>Japanese woman, I wonder who I'd like to be like in the future: Kashiko
>Kawakita, Etsuko Takano, Chiseko Tanaka, etc. However, they probably are
>not "radical" or "militant" enough to be called feminist. 

Part of the problem is that feminism is perceived only as radical or
militant when only a problematic relationship is possible with those
positions in the last two and a half decades. Thus, the popular version of
a feminist ends up seen as "urusai." 

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