Legacies of the comfort women of World War II
By: Margaret D. Stetz and Bonnie B.C. Oh., editors.
Contributors: Stetz, Margaret D. 1953-; Oh, Bonnie B. C.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe; Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Comfort women -- Asia
Description: The stories of the former comfort women -- long suppressed, but now emerging -- have galvanized both Asian and non-Asian intellectuals working in a variety of fields. Throughout the past decade, in particular, scholars of Asian history and politics, feminists, human rights activists, documentary filmmakers, visual artists, and novelists have begun to address the subject of the comfort system; to take up the cause of the surviving comfort women's struggles; to call attention to past (and present) sexual violence against women, especially during wartime; to consider the links among militarism, racism, imperialism, and sexism; and to write the unwritten stories of former comfort women into the narratives of twentieth-century political history.
Notes: "An East gate book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Historical and Cultural Contexts; title: 1. The Japanese Imperial System and the Korean "Comfort Women"; title: of World War II; title: Bonnie B. C. Oh 3; title: 2. "Comfort Women" and the Cultural Tradition of Prostitution; title: in Japanese Erotic Art; title: Linda Gertner Zatlin 26; title: 3. "Comfort Women" in the Dutch East Indies; title: Yuki Tanaka 42; title: 4. Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves: The Politics of Representing; title: the "Comfort Women"; title: Chunghee Sarah Soh 69; title: Part II. Academic and Activist Responses; title: 5. Wartime Sexual Violence against Women:; title: A Feminist Response; title: Margaret D. Stetz 91; title: 6. "Such an Unthinkable Thing": Asian American; title: Transnational Feminism and the "'Comfort Women'; title: of World War II" Conference; title: Pamela Thoma 101; title: 7. Urgent Matters: Redress for Surviving "Comfort Women"; title: Dongwoo Lee Hahm; title: 8. My Own Gaiatsu: A Document from 1945 Provides Proof; title: Grant K. Goodman; title: 9. Placing Japanese War Criminals on the U.S. Justice; title: Department's "Watch List" of 3 December 1996:; title: The Legal and Political Background; title: John Y Lee; title: Part III. Artistic Responses; title: 10. A Film within the Film: Making a Documentary; title: about Korean "Comfort Women"; title: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson; title: 11. Making In the Name of the Emperor; title: Christine Choy; title: 12. Tomiyama Taeko'sA Memory of the Sea; title: Margaret D. Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh,; title: with three illustrations of work by Tomiyama Taeko; title: 13. "Unsuspecting Souls": Art Evokes History at; title: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; title: Jill Medvedow,; title: with two illustrations of work by Mona Higuchi; title: 14. To Give a Voice; title: Therese Park; title: Index.