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C. Sarah Soh

The Comfort Women

Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan

384 pages, 16 halftones, 4 maps, 1 line drawing, 2 tables  6 x 9  © 2008
Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226767765   Published February 2009

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226767772   Published February 2009

List of Plates
List of Figures and Tables
List of Maps
Prologue: An Anthropological Analysis
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction   Gender, Class, Sexuality, and Labor under Japanese Colonialism and Imperialist War

PART 1   Gender and Structural Violence
            Chapter 1. From Multiple Symbolic Representations to the Paradigmatic Story
            Chapter 2. Korean Survivors’ Testimonial Narratives
            Chapter 3. Japan’s Military Comfort System as History

PART 2   Public Sex and Women’s Labor
            Chapter 4. Postwar/Postcolonial Memories of the Comfort Women
            Chapter 5. Private Memories of Public Sex
            Chapter 6. Public Sex and the State

Epilogue   Truth, Justice, Reconciliation
Appendix: Doing “Expatriate Anthropology”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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