Unfolding the 'Comfort Women' Debates : Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Genders and Sexualities in History Series .
- Genders and Sexualities in History Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyirhgt -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A Question of History -- Part 1 Modernity and the System of 'Comfort Women' -- 2 The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment of Orientalism -- 3 Modernity, Evil and Violence -- 4 The Origin of the 'Comfort Women' System -- Part 2 Probing Historical 'Truth' -- 5 Reading the Testimonies -- 6 Listening to Women's Voices -- Part 3 The Limits of Representation -- 7 Representation and Its Limits -- 8 Women's Agency: From Social Stigma to Survivor-Activists -- 9 Bearing Witness to Unshareable Pain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.