Silenced narratives of 'comfort women': Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects.
More than thirty years have passed since Kim Hak-soon's courageous silence-breaking in 1991. Still, there is a paucity of research on the Japanese victims of the 'comfort women' system. The narratives of Japanese comfort women as gendered imperial subjects reveal that militarism and nationalism work...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 682 - 701 |
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Sep2025
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