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Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

Author : Caroline Norma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351185257

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Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan by Caroline Norma Pdf

This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a “sexual contract” which provided male salarymen whose work was arduous, underpaid and subject to military-like organisation with easy access to women’s bodies, through workplace getaway trips to hot springs resorts, hostess bars, and prostitution tourism to South Korea, as sexual inducement to acquiesce to their own exploitation. Japan’s economic growth, the book thereby contends, came at the price not just of environmental and labour degradation, but also gender inequality.

The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars

Author : Caroline Norma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472507808

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The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars by Caroline Norma Pdf

The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific wars under the guise of providing 'comfort' for battle-weary troops. Campaigns for justice and reparations for 'comfort women' since the early 1990s have highlighted the magnitude of the human rights crimes committed against Korean, Chinese and other Asian women by Japanese soldiers after they invaded the Chinese mainland in 1937. These campaigns, however, say little about the origins of the system or its initial victims. The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars explores the origins of the Japanese military's system of sexual slavery and illustrates how Japanese women were its initial victims.

The Comfort Women

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226768045

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The Comfort Women by C. Sarah Soh Pdf

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone

Author : Ikuhiko Hata
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761870340

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Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone by Ikuhiko Hata Pdf

Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This book provides extensive documents and narratives by witnesses to shed light on the reality of these women who worked in the battle zone.

The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

Author : George Hicks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393245530

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The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George Hicks Pdf

"The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York Newsday Over 100,000 women across Asia were victims of enforced prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Forces during World War II. Until as recently as 1993 the Japanese government continued to deny this shameful aspect of its wartime history. George Hicks's book is the only history in English regarding this terrible enslavement of women.

Chinese Comfort Women

Author : Peipei Qiu,Zhiliang Su,Lifei Chen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208296

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Chinese Comfort Women by Peipei Qiu,Zhiliang Su,Lifei Chen Pdf

Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan’s wartime “comfort women” have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China—the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the survivors of this devastating system of sexual enslavement. Offering insight into the conditions of these women’s lives before and after the war, it points to the social, cultural, and political environments that prolonged their suffering. Through personal narratives from twelve Chinese “comfort station” survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of “comfort stations” with the progression of Japan’s military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China’s war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

The Comfort Women

Author : George L. Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015035763146

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The Comfort Women by George L. Hicks Pdf

Over 100,000 women were victims of forced prostitution - Japanese military prostitution - during World War II. Unlike other war atrocities, the surviving comfort women were too ashamed to tell their stories, playing into the hands of a determined Japanese government cover-up. However, nearly 50 years after the war, the women began to speak up, scholars delved into archives, a key Japanese official confessed and the story came out, ultimately forcing the Japanese government to admit the truth.

Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement

Author : Emma Dalton,Caroline Norma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811922282

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Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement by Emma Dalton,Caroline Norma Pdf

This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women’s experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement. Set against a backdrop of pervasive sexual inequality in Japanese society—on a scale that makes Japan an outlier in Asia as well as the rest of the advanced democratic world—this book offers a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls. The six feminist activists interviewed to create this snapshot all work toward eradicating sexual violence against women and girls—they are: Kitahara Minori (instigator of the Flower Demo and public commentator), Yamamoto Jun (activist for sex crime law amendments), Nitō Yumeno (advocate for sexually exploited girls), Tsunoda Yukiko (feminist lawyer), Mitsui Mariko (former politician and current activist), and Yang-Ching-Ja (comfort women activist).

Women and Martial Art in Japan

Author : Kate Sylvester
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000797909

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Women and Martial Art in Japan by Kate Sylvester Pdf

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art which, using bamboo swords as well as protective armour, and descended from traditional swordsmanship, instils in its practitioners, besides physical skills, societal values of etiquette and resilience as well connecting them to a “traditional” outlook, which includes a gendered cultural identity. The book therefore illustrates an unexplored example of identity construction in Japan, one which legitimises women’s sport experiences within a male-centric physical culture, unpacks the notion of “tradition” in kendo and unravels its stultifying control over women’s kendo participation, and discusses the androgenicity of women’s participation to highlight its subversive potential to develop women as leaders in sport, politics, and other fields which continue to be very male dominated in Japan.

Transpacific Visions

Author : Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi,Shinnosuke Takahashi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793621337

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Transpacific Visions by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi,Shinnosuke Takahashi Pdf

This book highlights the significance of North­–South connections as a part of transpacific history. The little-known stories it tells of such “vertical” encounters across the Pacific Ocean complicates established historical narratives which focus instead on “horizontal” connections between the United States and Asia.

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan

Author : Robert O'Mochain,Yuki Ueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000648201

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Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan by Robert O'Mochain,Yuki Ueno Pdf

Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, O’Mochain and Ueno show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society and how they might be most effectively challenged. With a psychosocial framework that draws insights from feminism, sociology, international studies, and political psychology, the authors pinpoint the motivations of the nativist right and reflect on the change of conditions that is necessary to end cultures of impunity for perpetrators of sexual abuse in Japan. Evaluating the value of the #MeToo model of activism, the authors offer insights that will encourage victims to come out of the shadows, pursue justice, and help transform Japan’s sense of identity both at home and abroad. Ueno, a female Japanese educator and O’Mochain, a non-Japanese male academic, examine the nature of sexual abuse problems both in educational contexts and in society at large through the use of surveys, interviews, and engagement with an eclectic range of academic literature. They identify the groups within society who offer the least support for women who pursue justice against perpetrators of sexual abuse. They also ask if far-right ideological extremists are fixated with proving that so called “comfort women” are higaisha-buru or “fake victims.” Japan would have much to gain on the international stage were it to fully acknowledge historical crimes of sexual violence, yet it continues to refuse to do so. O’Mochain and Ueno shed light on this puzzling refusal through recourse to the concepts of ‘international status anxiety’ and ‘male hysteria.’ An insightful read for scholars of Japanese society, especially those concerned about its treatment of women.

Face-veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia

Author : Eva F. Nisa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000647051

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Face-veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia by Eva F. Nisa Pdf

Face veiling is relatively new in Indonesia. It is often stereotyped as a sign of extremism and the growing Arabisation of Indonesian Muslims. It is also perceived as a symbol that demonstrates a lack of female agency. However, increasing numbers of women are choosing to wear the cadar (the full face veil). This book provides an ethnographic study of these women: why they choose to wear the cadar, embody strict religious disciplinary practices and the consequences of that choice. The women in this book belong to two Islamic revivalist movements: various Salafi groups and the Tablīghī Jamāʿat. Indonesia has constantly witnessed transformations in the meanings and practices of Islam, and this book demonstrates that women are key actors in this process. Nisa demonstrates that contrary to stereotypes, the women in this study have an agency which is expressed through their chosen docility and obedience.

Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia

Author : Jane Ahlstrand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000509557

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Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia by Jane Ahlstrand Pdf

This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia, and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework, and social actor analysis as the methodological approach, this book examines the discursive representation of three prominent female Indonesian political figures in the mainstream Indonesian online news media in a period of social-political transition. It presents newfound linguistic evidence in the form of discourse strategies that reflect the women’s dynamic relationship with power. More broadly, the critical analysis of the news discourse becomes a way of uncovering and evaluating implicit barriers and opportunities affecting women’s political participation in Indonesia and other Asian political contexts, Indonesia’s process of democratisation, and the influential role of the online news media in shaping and reflecting political discourse.

Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia

Author : Irma Riyani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000221916

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Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia by Irma Riyani Pdf

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships, the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia, and in particular how Islamic teachings affect Muslim married women’s perceptions and behaviour in their sexual relationships with their husbands. Based on extensive original research, the book reveals that Muslim women perceive marriage as a social, cultural, and religious obligation that they need to fulfil; that they realise that finding an ideal marriage partner is complicated, with some having the opportunity for a long courtship and others barely knowing their partner prior to marriage; and that there is a strong tendency, with some exceptions, for women to consider a sexual relationship in marriage as their duty and their husband’s right. Religious and cultural discourses justify and support this view and consider refusal a sin (dosa) or taboo (pamali). Both discourses emphasise obedience towards husbands in marriage.

Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule

Author : Isabella Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351019842

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Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule by Isabella Ng Pdf

This book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages (also known as walled villages) in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong’s reunification with China has impacted the walled villagers, in particular the women, and how the walled villages’ current gender dynamics in return reflects the changes that have happened in Hong Kong after the reunification with China. It traces the historical development of the walled villages, outlines the nature of walled-village society, and explores the changes currently at work including the erosion of the rural/urban divide, the increasing participation of indigenous women in Hong Kong society more widely and the breakdown of traditional social norms, especially patriarchy.