The rise of women's liberation movement in 1970 marked the beginning of a radical feminist politics that emerged in response to the New Left in Japan. In 1972, the mass media televised a political conflict between the state and a sect called the United Red Army. The production of this televised spectacle constituted a crises for the New Left in that it de-legitimized the use of "revolutionary violence." Shigematsu's talk will discuss how members of the women's liberation movement responded to this crises as an example of their radical feminist politics. This response involved a re-articulation of a woman's role in "revolutionary violence" and a radical notion of relationality.