Women Of Japan & Korea
Title | Women Of Japan & Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Gelb |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-01-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1439900965 |
Original research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea.
Zainichi Korean Women in Japan
Title | Zainichi Korean Women in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2018-12-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429013000 |
Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as unimportant and inconsequential, these women’s stories and activism are now proving to be an integral part of both the Zainichi Korean community and Japanese society. Featuring in-depth interviews from 1994 to the present, three generations of Zainichi Korean women—those who migrated from colonial Korea before or during WWII and the Asia-Pacific War and their Japan-born descendants—share their version of history, revealing their lives as members of an ethnic minority. Discovering voices within constricting patriarchal traditions, the women in this book are now able to tell their history. Ethnography, interviews, and the women’s personal and creative writings offer an in-depth look into their intergenerational dynamics and provide a new way of exploring the hidden inner world of migrant women and the different ways displacement affects subsequent generations. This book goes beyond existing Anglophone and Japanese literatures, to explore the lives of the Zainichi Korean women. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean history, culture and society, as well as ethnicity and Women’s Studies.
The Comfort Women
Title | The Comfort Women PDF eBook |
Author | C. Sarah Soh |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2020-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022676804X |
In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.
Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
Title | Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Ko |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2003-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520231382 |
This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."
Korean and Japanese Women
Title | Korean and Japanese Women PDF eBook |
Author | Hesung Chun Koh |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Total Pages | 954 |
Release | 1982-08-26 |
Genre | Reference |
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Women of Japan and Korea
Title | Women of Japan and Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Gelb |
Publisher | |
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Release | 1994 |
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This collection presents new research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea. At a time when women in these two countries are becoming more politically and socially prominent, these essays provide insight into the clashes that have arisen between tradition and change. The contributors compare similarities and differences in the two cultures, considering family life, education, health care, work, reproductive and legal rights, and political participation, including the rise of women's movements in Asia and the battle against sexism and gender stereotyping. Essays written by Japanese and Korean women, leading social scientists and practitioners, illuminate the current political, economic, and social status of women in Japan and Korea.
The Burden of the Past
Title | The Burden of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Kan Kimura |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472125036 |
The Burden of the Past reexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, going beyond the descriptive emphasis of previous studies to clearly identify the many independent variables that have affected the situation. From the history textbook debates, to the Occupation-period exploitation of “comfort women,” to the Dokdo/Takeshima territory dispute and Yasukuni Shrine visits, Professor Kimura traces the rise and fall of popular, political, and international concerns underlying these complex and highly fraught issues. Utilizing Japanese and South Korean newspaper databases to review discussion of the two countries’ disputed historical perceptions from the end of World War II to the present, The Burden of the Past provides readers with the historical framework and the major players involved, offering much-needed clarity on such polarizing issues. By seeing behind the public discourse and political rhetoric, this book offers a firmer footing for a discussion and the steps toward resolution.