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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the intimate lives of one hundred women factory workers in China's Pearl River delta. Their experiences are documented—in poetic form—in Stories of Migrant Women written by China's best known rural migrant poet Zhang Xiaoqiong. The article approaches Zheng the poet as a de facto social science researcher...
View articletitled, The Worker-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 237–274.
Published: 01 February 2020
... engaged female artists in conversations to solicit their self-portrayal as artists, or not; the importance of womanhood to their life and art making; and their use of feminism. The exchanges with six artists discussed here reveals the complex positions Hong Kong women occupy in sustaining artistic...
View articletitled, Contemporary “<span class="search-highlight">Women’s</span> Art in Hong Kong” Reframed: Performative Research on the Potentialities of <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> Art Makers
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 19–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Julia F. Andrews This article is a reflection on two intersecting themes, the rise of women as artists and as female subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China. Set in the context of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence...
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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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View articletitled, Can the “Comfort <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>” Footage Speak? The Afterlives of Camera Images as Document and the Flow of Life
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2 A photo album page with a description of “‘Geisha Girls,’ Jap Korean women” with the women's pictures. Courtesy of NARA.
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 12 Women in relaxing in the common space. Scene from Theresienstadt ( The Führer Gives the Jews a City , 1944) in the Theresienstadt camp.
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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...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 659–675.
Published: 01 August 2020
... violence? What was the impact of the Cold War on Japanese women’s movements for their own liberation? What are the implications for today? This article discusses the effects of Japan’s imperial legacies during the Cold War and the current aftermath with examples taken from the history of the women’s...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Katri Kauhanen The Korean National Council of Women, a women’s organization established in 1959, has received criticism in Korean literature for its collaboration with the authoritarian regimes that ruled South Korea for decades. This article, however, argues for a different kind of interpretation...
View articletitled, From Seoul to Paris: Transnational Character in the Work of the Korean National Council of <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> in Authoritarian South Korea
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 547–574.
Published: 01 August 2020
... recognized as the sparks that ignited the “all-island struggle” of 1956. This article considers the roles that Isahama’s women farmers played in inspiring the mass mobilization of 1956. While scholars have characterized the power of their protests as stemming precisely from their apolitical character—from...
View articletitled, “Isahama <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> Farmers” against Enclosure: A Rejection of the Property Relation in US-Occupied Okinawa
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 579–605.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam
Ben Tran
The first day — who knows when — that the word “I” (tôi) appeared in Vietnamese
poetry, it was truly surprising. It was as if “I...
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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...
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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...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Yingjin Zhang Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Engendering Chinese Filmic Discourse of the 1930s:
Configurations of Modern Women in Shanghai in Three Silent Films
Yingjin Zhang
What the popular wisdom knows...
View articletitled, Engendering Chinese Filmic Discourse of the 1930s: Configurations of Modern <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> in Shanghai in Three Silent Films
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 255–280.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women‘s Film
Dai Jinhua
Dai Jinhua is one of the outstanding younger scholars of the new generation of
Chinese...
View articletitled, Invisible <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and <span class="search-highlight">Women's</span> Film
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 392–417.
Published: 01 May 1995
...You-me Park Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 "And They Would Start Again":
Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist literature
You-me Park
I still remember the day in 1972 when I came home from school to find the
whole...
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 381–414.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China:
A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women
Xiaoqun Xu
Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...
View articletitled, The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Won Soon Park Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Japanese Reparations Policies and the "Comfort Women" Question
Won Soon Park
Introduction
The Japanese Imperial Army left an indelible mark on the destinies of many
Asian...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 275–278.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Kang Tŏk-kyŏng; Kim Sun-dŏk Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio
Artwork by former comfort women
Kang T6k- ky6ng
Kim Sun-d6k
Artwork by Jupanese artists
Tomiyama Taeko
Shimada Yoshiko
Artwork by Korean American artists
Yong Soon Min...
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positions (1997) 5 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Hyunah Yang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Revisiting the Issue of Korean “Military Comfort Women“: The Question of Truth
and Positionality
Hyunah Yang
Obiective Truth and Marginalization of the Women
In early 1992, when the issue of Korean...
View articletitled, Revisiting the Issue of Korean “Military Comfort <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>”: The Question of Truth and Positionality
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