The Politics of Trauma and Integrity : Stories of Japanese Comfort Women.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Gender in a Global/Local World Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: Trauma and Recovery
- Hegemonic Narratives and the Politics of History
- Trauma as Impossible Communication
- Recovery From Trauma as the Creation of a Coherent Self
- The Politics of Integrity
- The Structure of this Book
- Notes
- References
- 2 Conspiracy of Silence in Post-War Japan
- Introduction
- Japan's War Trauma and the States' Post-War Revisionism
- A Hidden History of the Sexual Contract: Japanese "Comfort Women" for the Allied Forces
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3 Kikumaru: Between Voice and Silence
- Introduction
- Reclaiming Post-War Life
- The Divided Self
- Kikumaru's Final Effort: Breaking Her Silence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 Shirota Suzuko: The Victim-Survivor-Activist
- Introduction
- The Listener
- Stage 1: Establishment of Stability for Survival
- Stage 2: Subject Formation By Building a Coherent Narrative of the Self
- Stage 3: Reconnection to the External World
- The Victim-Survivor-Activist
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5 The State-Licensed Prostitute as a Dutiful Daughter
- Introduction
- The Conspiracy of Silence: Forced Internalisation of the Abusers' Shame and Guilt Into Their Victims
- Kikumaru (Hirota 2009)
- For the Family to for the Country
- Shirota Suzuko (Shirota 1971)
- Patriarchal Family as a Unit of Patriarchal Society
- Betrayal of Trust
- Prostitution Sex as a Dehumanised Process
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 6 "Comfort Women" as a Gendered National Subject
- Introduction
- Hegemonic Masculinity and Homosocial Male Bonding
- Masculinities of Citizen-Soldiers in Modern Japan
- Kikumaru as the Wife/mistress for Officers.
- Shirota Suzuko as a Witness to Brutality at War
- Nationalism as a Conspiracy of Silence
- From "Fully Fledged" Citizens to "Fully Fledged" Soldiers
- Homosocial Bond Between "Fully Fledged" Soldiers
- The Making of an Imperial Killing Machine
- Conclusion: Beyond Masculinity as Humanity
- Notes
- References
- 7 Epilogue
- Introduction
- Modern Nation-States as Imagined Communities
- The 'Circles of Memory: The "Comfort Women" and the World'
- From Empathy to Activism as Imagined Communities
- References
- Appendix Brief Life Stories of Some Japanese "Comfort Women"
- Keiko (Sasakuri Fuji)
- Miyagi Tsuru (Pseudonym)
- Mizuno Iku
- Shimada Yoshiko (Pseudonym)
- Suzumoto Aya (Pseudonym)
- Takanashi Taka
- Tanaka Tami (Pseudonym)
- Uehara Eiko (Pseudonym)
- Index.