Soh, Chunghee Sarah.

The comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008. - xxviii, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Worlds of desire . - Worlds of desire. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.

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.

9780226767765

2008027222


Comfort women--History.--Korea
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Korea.
Service, Compulsory non-military--Japan.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Japan.

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