The comfort women: sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan
Series: Worlds of desirePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008Description: xxviii, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780226767765Subject(s): Comfort women -- Korea -- History | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Korea | Service, Compulsory non-military -- Japan | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- JapanDDC classification: 940.531 Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Nalanda University History and Archaeology | School of Historical Studies | 940.531 So25 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 011997 |
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.
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