The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and JapanIn 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. |
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The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan C. Sarah Soh No preview available - 2009 |