The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex (review)

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The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex (review)

01 Jan 1999-Journal of World History (University of Hawai'i Press)-Vol. 10, Iss: 1, pp 271-276

About: This article is published in Journal of World History.The article was published on 1999-01-01. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comfort women & Colonialism.

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The Korean Comfort Women Commemorative Campaign: Role of Intersectionality, Symbolic Space, and Transnational Circulation in Politics of Memory and Human Rights

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Jihwan Yoon

01 Jan 2017

13 citations

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...The significant difference between the traumatic memories of comfort women and Holocaust victims is that the victimized females of the sexual slavery during WWII are widely distributed throughout the East and Southeast Asian countries and the Netherlands whereas the Holocaust issue has primarily been considered as the traumatic history of a single ethnic group, although clearly the Holocaust made victims of many different groups (gay people, intellectually disabled, etc.)....
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...Even though the women from the conquered regions of East and Southeast Asia were forced to occupy military brothels, the Japanese colonial government and military sought to represent this participation as 102 voluntary, military prostitution by using the euphemistic term “comfort women”....
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...…in estimating the number of comfort women, many scholars and civic activists agree that the Japanese army had forced approximately 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, into comfort stations spread over East and Southeast Asia (Choi et al., 1997; Kang, 2003; Min, 2003; Totsuka, 1999; Wawrynek, 2003)....
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...Nevertheless, the Japanese army and government were strongly engaged in institutionalizing the human trafficking of young girls and operating comfort stations wherever they constructed military bases in East and Southeast Asia....
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...More importantly, their identity politics collected public interest of other comfort women from East and Southeast Asian countries....
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Collaborators and national memory: The creation of the encyclopedia of pro-Japanese collaborators in Korea:

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Jeong Chul Kim¹, Gary Alan Fine¹•Institutions (1)

Northwestern University¹

15 Mar 2013-Memory Studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the transition of historical actors from forgotten figures to subjects of reproach for their deeds is central to understanding the power of memory movements, and they examine the public...

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Abstract: The transition of historical actors from forgotten figures to subjects of reproach for their deeds is central to understanding the power of memory movements. In this article, we examine the public ...

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...…young Korean women were mobilized into munition factories; others, known as “comfort women,” were coerced into prostitution for Japanese soldiers (see Choi, 1997; Hicks, 1995; Schmidt, 2000; Soh, 2008; Yoshimi, 2000); and Korean men were sent to Japan, Sakhalin, and Manchuria to supplement the…...
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Authentic movement as a laboratory for spirituality: opening to God and the inner self

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Hye Hyun Han

01 Jan 2016

TL;DR: The main purpose of as mentioned in this paper is to evaluate authentic movement as an effective approach to liberative religious education, which is a field of modern dance that focuses on emotional movement and its ability to access the human unconsciousness.

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Abstract: The main purpose of this research is to evaluate authentic movement as an effective approach to liberative religious education. Authentic movement is a field of modern dance that focuses on emotional movement and its ability to access the human unconsciousness, especially as understood in Carl Jung’s psychological perspective. Through authentic movement, a person is able to glimpse one’s inner self and one’s sense of the Divine, and also to release suppressed feelings, including those feelings evoked by the pressures of social expectations and stereotypes. Authentic movement thus engages persons in a process of religious education that can liberate them through a greater integration with their inner selves and religious experience.

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