Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex Volume 5

by V.Y. Mudimbe and Chungmoo Choi

This special issue explores the devastated terrain where the peculiar form of East Asian colonial modernity and militarism intersects with gender and sexuality. The contributors suggest that in building the modern nation-state, through the inversion of public and domestic space, Japan created a state-administered system of licensed prostitution within itself and its colonies. The "Comfort Women" system that drafted over 200,000 Asian women into sexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822364646
• ISBN13: 9780822364641
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"