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Korean "Comfort Women"
Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement
Pyong Gap Min
- 286 pages
- English
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Korean "Comfort Women"
Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement
Pyong Gap Min
Ă propos de ce livre
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 came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women's movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean "Comfort Women" synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues "comfort women" faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women's human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction: Background Information about Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the Redress Movement for the Victims
- 1. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
- 2. Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century
- 3. The Emergence of the âComfort Womenâ Issue and Victimsâ Breaking Silence
- 4. General Information about the âComfort Womenâ System
- 5. Forced Mobilization of âComfort Womenâ
- 6. Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships
- 7. Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at âComfort Stationsâ
- 8. The Perils of Korean âComfort Womenâsâ Homecoming Trips
- 9. Korean âComfort Womenâsâ Lives in Korea and China
- 10. Progress of the Redress Movement in Korea
- 11. Divided Responses to the Redress Movement in Japan
- 12. Responses to the Redress Movement in the United States
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author