|
Product Description
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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
- Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- The Second World War: A Short History (Struggle for Survival)
- Comfort Women
- Native Sons: West African Veterans And France In The Twentieth Century (Politics, History, and Culture)
- Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II
- The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
- Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 (Central Eurasia in Context)
- Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992
- Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II (Asia Pacific Modern)
*If this is not the "The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Worlds of Desire: The" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Nov 3, 2024 14:10 +08.