Stories that Make History. The Experience and Memories of the Japanese Military ›Comfort Girls-Women‹

• Hoofdauteur: Women's Human Rights Center (auth)
• Andere auteurs: The Research Team of the War (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: De Gruyter 2020
• Reeks: Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes
• Onderwerpen: Biography & True Stories; Violence; Trauma research; Suppression; Korea
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, compounded their long, miserable suffering for half a...