The Resource The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan, C. Sarah Soh
The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan, C. Sarah Soh
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- Summary
- From the Publisher: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women-mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army-endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women-a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors-from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women's human rights movement-that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxviii, 352 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Gender, class, sexuality, and labor under Japanese colonialism and Imperialist war
- From multiple symbolic representations to the paradigmatic story
- Korean survivors' testimonial narratives
- Japan's military comfort system as history
- Postwar/postcolonial memories of the comfort women
- Private memories of public sex
- Public sex and the state
- Isbn
- 9780226767772
- Label
- The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan
- Title
- The comfort women
- Title remainder
- sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan
- Statement of responsibility
- C. Sarah Soh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the Publisher: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women-mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army-endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women-a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors-from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women's human rights movement-that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Soh, Chunghee Sarah
- Dewey number
- 940.53/1
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D810.C698
- LC item number
- S65 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Worlds of desire
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Comfort women
- World War, 1939-1945
- Service, Compulsory non-military
- World War, 1939-1945
- Label
- The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan, C. Sarah Soh
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-322) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Gender, class, sexuality, and labor under Japanese colonialism and Imperialist war -- From multiple symbolic representations to the paradigmatic story -- Korean survivors' testimonial narratives -- Japan's military comfort system as history -- Postwar/postcolonial memories of the comfort women -- Private memories of public sex -- Public sex and the state
- Control code
- 225875908
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxviii, 352 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226767772
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008027222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)225875908
- Label
- The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan, C. Sarah Soh
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-322) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Gender, class, sexuality, and labor under Japanese colonialism and Imperialist war -- From multiple symbolic representations to the paradigmatic story -- Korean survivors' testimonial narratives -- Japan's military comfort system as history -- Postwar/postcolonial memories of the comfort women -- Private memories of public sex -- Public sex and the state
- Control code
- 225875908
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxviii, 352 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226767772
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008027222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)225875908
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