The gender politics of war memory
Subtitle: Asia-Pacific and beyond
By: edited by Muta Kazue and Beverley Anne Yamamoto
Publisher: Osaka University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Osaka, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9784872593464
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Monuments; Political aspects; War memorials; Comfort women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chap. 1. Gender and the de-politicization of war memorialization in Japan / Muta Kazue; title: Chap. 2. Militarised masculinity as national identity : the Australian War Memorial / Beverley Anne Yamamoto; title: Chap. 3. Peace education in Japan and gender / Kimura Ryōko; title: Chap. 4. Remembering the Battle of Okinawa, forgetting the comfort women / Tamashiro Fukuko; title: Chap. 5. Unrecognized victims of military sexual violence during the early Cold War era in Japan / Fujime Yuki; title: Chap. 6. The gendered limits of Holocaust memories in Germany / Himeoka Toshiko; title: Chap. 7. Reconciliation over past sexual slavery in Japan : the case of the comfort women / Okano Yayo.