The Japanese comfort women and sexual slavery during the China and Pacific wars /
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| Author / Creator: | Norma, Caroline, author. |
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| Imprint: | London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. ©2016 |
| Description: | xi, 247 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War, culture and society War, culture and society. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10463748 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The First Victims
- Structure of the discussion
- Underpinnings of the discussion
- Abolitionist terms of the discussion
- What was the comfort station system of military sexual slavery?
- Why focus on prostituted victims of military sexual slavery?
- Contemporary comfort women
- 1. Scapegoat Survivors: Japanese Comfort Women and the Contemporary Justice Movement
- Scapegoating as a methodological framework
- The abolitionist history of the 'justice for comfort women movement
- Prostituted victims in the rhetoric of right-wing defenders of the Japanese military
- Progressive scapegoating of prostituted victims of the wartime system
- 'Sex worker rights' discourse in Japan in the 1990s
- Myths about Japanese comfort station survivors
- Radical historical critique
- 2. The Taisho Democratization of Prostitution
- The Japanese 'New Woman'
- The dark valley of prostitution
- Ideological resistance to a prostitution 'dark valley'
- The sex industry boom of the Taisho era
- Trafficking: The sex industry supply chain of the Taisho era
- The prostitution of girls
- Geisha sector prostitution
- Women's experience of brothels in the Taisho era
- Accounts of Taisho-era civilian sexual slavery
- Conclusion
- 3. The 1930s Militarization of Civilian Prostitution
- Military co-optation of Japan's civilian economy and society
- Civilian prostitution and the shaping of male sexuality
- Behavioural antecedents of military sexual slavery
- Pornography consumption among military men
- Civilian sex industry response to military demand
- Total war mobilization and Japans civilian sex industry
- Conclusion
- 4. The Military Democratization of Prostitution
- The pre-war trafficking of prostituted women out of Japan
- The deployment of men out of Japan
- The military democratization of prostitution
- Military export of prostitution demand
- Democratized access to prostitution
- Democratized prostitution rights and the catharsis effect'
- Intra-military transmission of a 'prostitution sexuality'
- Conclusion
- 5. Japan's Imperial Sex Industries and the Trafficking of Colonial Prostituted Women into Comfort Stations
- Women who are forced and women who choose
- Japanese development of Korea's colonial sex industry
- The pre-war trafficking of Korean women out of the colonial sex industry
- Japanese development of Taiwan's colonial sex industry
- Conclusion
- 6. Okinawan Prostituted Women and Comfort Stations at War's End
- Condemning military sexual slavery for its lack of prostituted victims
- Prostituted victims till the very end
- Japanese prostituted women on Okinawa
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Sexual Slavery and the Crucible of Contemporary Japan
- The Taisho era rebooted?
- Scapegoated victims of military sexual slavery
- Military reductionism
- A historical view of civilian sexual slavery
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
