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Genders and Sexualities in History Ser.: Unfolding the 'Comfort Women' Debates : Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices by Maki Kimura (2015, Hardcover)

In the 1990s, survivor-victims of the 'comfort women' system - sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Second World War - started to testify to their ordeal. Their testimonies attracted huge attention and have raised fundamental and complicated questions about history and women's voices. By challenging cultural and gender essentialist analyses, this study aims to examine the 'comfort women' system through the lens of modernity, where the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism was formed. The testimonies of victim-survivors are the key to the discussion of the 'comfort women' system as they can offer a critical understanding of the gendered dimension of history and war. Through the analysis of publicly available testimonial narratives of victim-survivors, however, the book argues that the centrality of their testimonies lies rather in their role in enabling women's subjectivities and agencies, which is achieved through the intersubjective process of testifying and listening to their voices.

Author
Maki Kimura
Publication Name
Unfolding the 'comfort Women' Debates : Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History Ser.
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
VII, 283 Pages

Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ds1-937
Table of Content
1. A Question of History.- 2. The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment OfOrientalism.- 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
Copyright Date
2016
Topic
Military / World War II, Asia / General, Social History, Women's Studies
Lccn
2015-023527
Dewey Decimal
940.53/1
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science

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