Unfolding the 'comfort women' debates : modernity, violence, women's voices /

This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kimura, Maki, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Colección:Genders and sexualities in history.
Temas:
1939-1945
Comfort women > Asia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Asia.
Service, Compulsory non-military > Japan.
Femmes de réconfort > Asie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Femmes > Asie.
Réquisitions civiles > Japon.
Comfort women
Service, Compulsory non-military
Women
Andra världskriget 1939-1945.
Kvinnor och krig.
Sexuella övergrepp.
Asia
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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