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positions (2020) 28 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... conventional portrayals of comfort women as erotic prostitutes. The image of comfort women as highly sexualized bodies has taken deep root in postwar Japanese popular culture, but the statue challenges this stereotyping and presents instead the pristine image of comfort women as innocent teenage victims...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (3): 659–675.
Published: 01 August 2020
... to by the governments of South Korea and Japan three years earlier. The foundation was established in 2017 after the governments of Japan and South Korea agreed on December 26, 2015, that they would take concrete measures to solve the problem of comfort women, which had been an obstacle to better relations between...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 February 1997
...
ingredients in characterizing the category of “Third World women” is their
status as the victims of male violence-a monolithic, powerless group prior
to any analysis.42 As such, military comfort women would neatly fit into the
stereotyping...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
... by populist politicians such as Nagoya s right- wing mayor Kawamura Takashi, who was particularly upset by the inclusion of the so- positions 28:4 doi 10.1215/10679847-8606510 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press positions 28:4 November 2020 816 called Statue of Peace representing Korean comfort women, 1...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): v–xiv.
Published: 01 February 1997
... becoming informants and
restoring their status as subjective agents. Resituating the women’s experi-
ence requires a rethinking of who the comfort women were. Were these
women paid prostitutes, sexual slaves, or rape victims? By comparing...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
... (Sands 2019 ; see also Bruckermann, this issue; Kleinod-Freudenberg and Chanthavong, this issue), including critical perspectives on energy consumption and its effects on the environment, the desire for individual comfort and social status expressed through lifestyle choices still “outweighs a desire...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 725–754.
Published: 01 August 2013
...David J. Kim On July 13, 1990, a group of shamans innovated and performed a ritual they refer to as the haewŏn chinhon to appease the deceased spirits of Japanese military “comfort women.” Caught unprepared for the large number of spirits who appeared, as well as the accompanying spiritual...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (4): 803–838.
Published: 01 November 2023
... document depicting those moving women. This article examines the politics of using film footage excavated from archives long after the original production of the film. Both types of reactions shown toward the “comfort women” footage shared the same attitude, which viewed the footage as a repository...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 February 1997
... has made the status of the comfort women well known.
Along with the media, activists continue to raise the question of reparations
for these war victims at the United Nations and to press charges in Japanese
domestic courts. As a result...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... who ended up having romantic relationships
with American men and that line, the line between the two is often really
blurred.” The film also reveals how the yanggongju is related to comfort
women:
The yanggongju has her...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Tani Barlow Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Introduction
Tani Barlow
“Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young-Joo’s The Mur-
muring, 1995” opens an underlying theme that suffuses this general issue:
how...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 79–107.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the representation of their testimony. If the
category of “comfort women” of Japanese sexual slavery can substantially
and metaphorically designate the absent positions in history at both regional
and global levels as I claim, creating and deconstructing...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Jongwoo Jeremy Kim This essay does not concern the history of comfort women per se; rather, it treats disruption and transgression in the discourse of comfort women, as filmmaker Byun Young-Joo sets in motion in The Murmuring (1995). This essay is particularly concerned with Byun's visual language...
Journal Article
positions (2004) 12 (2): 431–456.
Published: 01 May 2004
... by the
dominant male, the Yamada male. Thus deprived of sexuality and humanity,
comfort women were easily commodified as mere “military supplies” and
demoted onto the status of “food rations, ammunition, [and] boots” under
the most blatant form of Japanese...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 219–255.
Published: 01 February 1997
...
Corps for the Comforting of the Imperial Army to Cheju Island in 1943.5
Several women, appealing to the Korean government for support, testified
that they had been mobilized from elementary schools to become military
sex slaves in war...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (1): 73–93.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the spectrum are studies that investigate the
highly sexualized category of “comfort women” in the military installa-
tions.11 Examining how the empire addressed presexual and premarital
women as objects of mobilization, how one woman personally...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 May 2009
... representations of Taiwan and their
repercussions (Joyce C. H. Liu), a historical perspective on the legal status of
women in Taiwan in various marital situations (Chao-ju Chen), a discussion
of the complex lives of Taiwanese who are temporarily settled...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 839–873.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in a new land or as victims of interna-
tional human trafficking and racism.21 Japanese prostitutes in Manchuria,
on the other hand, are described as casualties of Japanese colonial expansion
as well as the precursors of Japanese comfort women.22...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 171–219.
Published: 01 February 1997
... prosti-
tution system, the mobilization of Korean comfort women would have been
a very different process.
Of course, the women’s status in businesses run by operators whose
objective was profit...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (2): 479–509.
Published: 01 May 2003
... it embodies is most socially consequential;
it possesses the highest potential to invite scorn and contempt. Women who
wearexposedshortstockingsforvalue,comfort,habit,orformalityarepartly
immune to critiques made from an aesthetic perspective...
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