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Knowledge Production and Activism on the ‘Comfort Women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia book cover

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Knowledge Production and Activism on the ‘Comfort Women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia

Edited By Mary M. McCarthy Copyright 2027
206 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the voices, silences, and legacies of women held in sexual servitude to the Japanese imperial armed forces during the 1930s and 1940s—the so-called "comfort women." During the 1990s, survivors began to come forward publicly, leading to raised questions, such as: Why did it take so long for them to speak out? Why have so many others never gone public? This edited volume explores... Read more

Introduction: Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia

Mary M. McCarthy

 

1. Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects

Sachiyo Tsukamoto

 

2. The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory

Kevin Blackburn

 

3. Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory

Royce Novak

 

4. Intersectionality of early sexual trauma and aging in two Truku comfort women survivors’ life trajectories

Shu-Hua Kang and Frank T.-Y. Wang

 

5. Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history

Akihisa Matsuno

 

6. ‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny

Catherine Lianza Aquino

 

7. Colonized bodies: intersectional women’s movements of Korea and the Korean diaspora in the U.S.

Jung-Sil Lee

 

8. Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo

Xiaoyang Hao and Jiabao Pan

 

9. The archival practice of ‘comfort women’ documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

Hyun Gyung Kim

Biography

Mary M. McCarthy is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Drake University, USA. She specializes in Japan's domestic and foreign policies, including the legacies of the "comfort women" issue. She holds a BA in East Asian Studies and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

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