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

• Main Author: Women's Human Rights Center (auth)
• Other Authors: The Research Team of the War (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2020
• Series: Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; Violence; Trauma research; Suppression; Korea
• Online Access: 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...