Unfolding the "comfort women" debates : modernity, violence, women's voices / Maki Kimura, University College London, UK.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimura, Maki, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:Genders and sexualities in history.
Subjects:
Comfort women > Asia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Asia.
Service, Compulsory non-military > Japan.
Comfort women.
Service, Compulsory non-military.
Women.
Asia.
Japan.
1939-1945
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Physical Description:vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A question of history
  • The struggle against ultra-nationalism and the entrapment of orientalism
  • Modernity, evil and violence
  • The origin of the "comfort women" system
  • Reading the testimonies
  • Listening to women's voices
  • Representation and its limits
  • Women's agency: from social stigma to survivor-activists
  • Bearing witness to unshareable pain.