This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where women recover and gain their voices and agencies.
Maki Kimura
comfort women sexual violence rape modernity Orientalism feminism colonialism gender history history of literature nationalism Orient violence women