TY - BOOK AU - Kimura,Maki ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Unfolding the 'Comfort Women' Debates: Modernity, Violence, Women's Voices T2 - Genders and Sexualities in History SN - 9781137392510 (ebook:PDF) U1 - 950 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint) KW - History, Modern N1 - 1. A Question of History -- 2. The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment Of Orientalism -- 3. Modernity, Evil and Violence -- 4. The Origin of the 'Comfort Women' System -- 5. Reading the Testimonies -- 6. Listening to Women's Voices -- 7. Representation and its Limits -- 8. Women's Agency: From Social Stigma to Survivor-Activists -- 9. Bearing Witness to Unshareable Pain -- Bibliography N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392510 ER -