| Description |
xvi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"An East gate book." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Japanese imperial system and the Korean "comfort women" of World War II / Bonnie B.C. Oh -- "Comfort women" and the cultural tradition of prostitution in Japanese erotic art / Linda Gertner Zatlin -- "Comfort women" in the Dutch East Indies / Yuki Tanaka -- Prostitutes versus sex slaves: the politics of representing the "comfort women" / Chunghee Sarah Soh -- Wartime sexual violence against women: a feminist response / Margaret D. Stetz -- "Such an unthinkable thing": Asian American transnational feminism and the "'Comfort women' of World War II" conference / Pamela Thoma -- Urgent matters: redress for surviving "comfort women" / Dongwoo Lee Hahm -- My own Gaiatsu: a document from 1945 provides proof / Grant K. Goodman -- Placing Japanese war criminals on the U.S. Justice Department's "watch list" of 3 December 1996: the legal and political background / John Y. Lee -- A film within the film: making a documentary about Korean "comfort women" / Dai Sil Kim-Gibson -- Making In the name of the emperor / Christine Choy -- Tomiyama Taeko's A memory of the sea / Margaret D. Stetz, Bonnie B.C. Oh, with three illustrations of work by Tomiyama Taeko -- "Unsuspecting souls": art evokes history at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Jill Medvedow, with two illustrations of work by Mona Higuchi -- To give a voice / Therese Park. |
| Subject |
Comfort women -- Asia.
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| Added Author |
Stetz, Margaret D. (Margaret Diane), 1953-
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Oh, Bonnie B. C.
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| ISBN |
0765605430 alkaline paper |
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0765605449 paperback alkaline paper |
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