Unfolding the "comfort women" debates modernity, violence, women's voices - Kimura, Maki 1969- (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
A question of history -- The struggle against ultra-nationalism and the entrapment of orientalism -- Modernity, evil and violence -- The origin of the "comfort women" system -- Reading the testimonies -- Listening to women's voices -- Representation and its limits -- Women's agency: from social stigma to survivor-activists -- Bearing witness to unshareable pain.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-276) and index.
Keywords: Comfort women -- Asia; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Asia; Service, Compulsory non-military -- Japan