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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254791403321

Autore

Kimura Maki

Titolo

Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates : Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices / / by Maki Kimura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-39251-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

940.53/1

Soggetti

Asia—History

Social history

World War, 1939-1945

History, Modern

Japan—History

Asian History

Social History

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Modern History

History of Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. A Question of History -- 2. The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment Of Orientalism -- 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 .

Sommario/riassunto

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.