Absent the Silently Invisible: Rethinking Model Victimhood under the "Comfort Women" System.
(Re)visiting the testimony exhibition part of Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Tokyo, I focus on one testimony in particular. This testimony was given by a survivor of the "comfort women" system, a state-sponsored regime of military sexual exploitation and core institution in the Empire of...
| Publicado en: | Hypatia Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 716 - 731 |
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Cambridge University Press
Fall2025
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