Unfolding the 'Comfort Women' Debates [electronic resource] : Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices /
Kimura, Maki.author.
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 women recover and gain their voices and agencies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. A Question of History -- 2. The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment Of Orientalism -- 3. Modernity, Evil and Violence -- 4. The Origin of the 'Comfort Women' System -- 5. Reading the Testimonies -- 6. Listening to Women's Voices -- 7. Representation and its Limits -- 8. Women's Agency: From Social Stigma to Survivor-Activists -- 9. Bearing Witness to Unshareable Pain -- Bibliography .
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 women recover and gain their voices and agencies.
Asia-History.
Social history.
World War, 1939-1945.
History, Modern.
Japan-History.
Asian History.
Social History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Modern History.
History of Japan.