The Comfort Women - Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan

Informationen zum Autor C. Sarah Soh is professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University and the author of Women in Korean Politics . In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women. Zusammenfassung In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale! the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women.

Product details

• Authors: C. Sarah Soh
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780226767772
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76777-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture; Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture; Worlds of Desire (CHUP)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education