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Korean "comfort women" : military brothels, brutality, and the redress movement / Pyong Gap Min.
LIBRA D810.C698 M56 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Min, Pyong Gap, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Genocide, political violence, human rights series
- Genocide, political violence, human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comfort women--Korea--History.
- Comfort women.
- Women and war.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Korea.
- History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Korea.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Service, Compulsory non-military--Japan.
- Service, Compulsory non-military.
- Japan.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Women--Crimes against--Korea.
- Women.
- Sexual abuse victims--Korea.
- Women and war--Korea--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Korea.
- Atrocities.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Military brothels, brutality, and the redress movement
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
- 2. Enough Information, but the Issue Was Buried for Half a Century
- 3. The Emergence of the "Comfort Women" Issue and Victims' Breaking Silence
- 4. General Information about the "Comfort Women" System
- 5. Forced Mobilization of "Comfort Women"
- 6. Payments of Fees and Affectionate Relationships
- 7. Sexual Exploitation, Violence, and Threats at "Comfort Stations"
- 8. The Perils of Korean "Comfort Women's" Homecoming Trips
- 9. Korean "Comfort Women's" 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781978814967
- 1978814968
- 9781978814974
- 1978814976
- OCLC:
- 1152481230
- Publisher Number:
- 99986717002
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