The Comfort Women - Sexual Violence And Postcolonial Memory In Korea And Japan

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. This study reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together determined the fate of Korean comfort women.

• | By (Author): C. Sarah Soh
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226767779
• | ISBN-13: 9780226767772