Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II
Part I. Historical and Cultural Contexts
1. The Japanese Imperial System and the Korean “Comfort Women”
of World War II
Bonnie B. C. Oh
2. “Comfort Women” and the Cultural Tradition of Prostitution
in Japanese Erotic Art
Linda Gertner Zatlin
3. “Comfort Women” in the Dutch East Indies
Yuki Tanaka
4. Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves:The Politics of Representing
the “Comfort Women”
Chunghee Sarah Soh
Part II. Academic and Activist Responses
5. Wartime Sexual Violence against Women:
A Feminist Response
Margaret D. Stetz
6. “Such an Unthinkable Thing”:Asian American
Transnational Feminism and the “‘Comfort Women’
of World War II“ Conference
Pamela Thoma
7. Urgent Matters:Redress for Surviving “Comfort Women”
Dongwoo Lee Hahm
8. My Own Gaiatsu:A Document from 1945 Provides Proof
Grant K. Goodman
9. Placing Japanese War Criminals on the U.S. Justice
Department’s “Watch List” of 3 December 1996:
The Legal and Political Background
John Y Lee
Part III. Artistic Responses
10. A Film within the Film:Making a Documentary
about Korean “Comfort Women”
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
11. Making In the Name of the Emperor
Christine Choy
12. Tomiyama Taeko ‘sA Memory of the Sea
Margaret D. Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh,
with three illustrations of work by Tomiyama Taeko
13. “Unsuspecting Souls”:Art Evokes History at
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Jill Medvedow,
with two illustrations of work by Mona Higuchi
14. To Give a Voice
Therese Park
Index
1. The Japanese Imperial System and the Korean “Comfort Women”
of World War II
Bonnie B. C. Oh
2. “Comfort Women” and the Cultural Tradition of Prostitution
in Japanese Erotic Art
Linda Gertner Zatlin
3. “Comfort Women” in the Dutch East Indies
Yuki Tanaka
4. Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves:The Politics of Representing
the “Comfort Women”
Chunghee Sarah Soh
Part II. Academic and Activist Responses
5. Wartime Sexual Violence against Women:
A Feminist Response
Margaret D. Stetz
6. “Such an Unthinkable Thing”:Asian American
Transnational Feminism and the “‘Comfort Women’
of World War II“ Conference
Pamela Thoma
7. Urgent Matters:Redress for Surviving “Comfort Women”
Dongwoo Lee Hahm
8. My Own Gaiatsu:A Document from 1945 Provides Proof
Grant K. Goodman
9. Placing Japanese War Criminals on the U.S. Justice
Department’s “Watch List” of 3 December 1996:
The Legal and Political Background
John Y Lee
Part III. Artistic Responses
10. A Film within the Film:Making a Documentary
about Korean “Comfort Women”
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
11. Making In the Name of the Emperor
Christine Choy
12. Tomiyama Taeko ‘sA Memory of the Sea
Margaret D. Stetz and Bonnie B. C. Oh,
with three illustrations of work by Tomiyama Taeko
13. “Unsuspecting Souls”:Art Evokes History at
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Jill Medvedow,
with two illustrations of work by Mona Higuchi
14. To Give a Voice
Therese Park
Index
