Unfolding the ''Comfort Women'' Debates - Modernity, Violence, Women''s Voices

Informationen zum Autor Maki Kimura is Teaching Fellow at the Departmentof Political Science, University College London, and Associate Lecturer at theOpen University, UK. She has previously been involved in various projects onracial and gender equalities and has researched and taught wide-ranging issuesin gender and politics. Klappentext This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where women recover and gain their voices and agencies. Zusammenfassung This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender! race! class and colonialism! while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where women recover and gain their voices and agencies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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   

Product details

• Authors: Maki Kimura
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137392497
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39249-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History; Genders and Sexualities in His; Genders and Sexualities in History; Genders and Sexualities in His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Second World War, Asian History, History, Modern, Modern History, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Asia—History, History of Japan, Japan—History