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

by Maki Kimura

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137392510
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	283
File size:	733 KB

About the Author

Maki Kimura is Teaching Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University College London, and Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK. She has previously been involved in various projects on racial and gender equalities and has researched and taught wide-ranging issues in gender and politics.

Table of Contents

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