TY - BOOK ID - 136197959 TI - Whose comfort? : Body, sexuality and identities of Korean 'comfort women' and Japanese soldiers during WWII PY - 2020 SN - 9789811206344 9811206341 PB - New Jersey World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Comfort women KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Service, Compulsory non-military KW - Sex crimes KW - Women KW - Atrocities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136197959 AB - "This book examines the system of military 'comfort women' in World War II created and maintained to provide sexual servitude to its armed forces by Japan during World War II. The ways in which body, sexuality and identity are deployed in the maintenance of colonial/nationalist power, patriarchal relations and ethnic hierarchies are explored in this work. To achieve this objective requires examining issues of body politics, power, femininity and military masculinity, all of which are entangled in the context of the 'comfort women' system. This volume relies mainly on presonal narratives, including testimonies and life histories of Korean 'comfort women' victims/survivors and Japanese veterans obtained from interviews that the author conducted as well as from previously published testimonies." -- ER -