Korean "comfort women" : military brothels, brutality, and the redress movement /
Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who cam...
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : background information about Japanese military sexual slavery and the redress movement for the victims
- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks
- Enough information, but the issue buried for half century
- The emergence of the "comfort women" issue and victims' breaking silence
- General information about the comfort women system
- Forced mobilization of comfort women
- Payments of fees and affectionate relationships
- Sexual exploitation, violence, and threats at "comfort stations"
- Perils of Korean "comfort women's" homecoming trips
- Korean "comfort women's" life in Korea and China
- Progress of the redress movement in Korea
- Divided responses to the redress movement in Japan
- Responses to the redress movement in the United States
- Conclusion.