The Politics of Trauma and Integrity : : Stories of Japanese Comfort Women.
"The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese "comfort women" survivors. Through an innovative interdisciplinary study of the politics of gendered memory and trauma in historical conte...
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| Superior document: | Gender in a Global/Local World Ser. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender in a Global/Local World Ser.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: Trauma and Recovery
- Hegemonic Narratives and the Politics of History
- Trauma as Impossible Communication
- Recovery From Trauma as the Creation of a Coherent Self
- The Politics of Integrity
- The Structure of this Book
- Notes
- References
- 2 Conspiracy of Silence in Post-War Japan
- Introduction
- Japan's War Trauma and the States' Post-War Revisionism
- A Hidden History of the Sexual Contract: Japanese "Comfort Women" for the Allied Forces
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3 Kikumaru: Between Voice and Silence
- Introduction
- Reclaiming Post-War Life
- The Divided Self
- Kikumaru's Final Effort: Breaking Her Silence
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 Shirota Suzuko: The Victim-Survivor-Activist
- Introduction
- The Listener
- Stage 1: Establishment of Stability for Survival
- Stage 2: Subject Formation By Building a Coherent Narrative of the Self
- Stage 3: Reconnection to the External World
- The Victim-Survivor-Activist
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 5 The State-Licensed Prostitute as a Dutiful Daughter
- Introduction
- The Conspiracy of Silence: Forced Internalisation of the Abusers' Shame and Guilt Into Their Victims
- Kikumaru (Hirota 2009)
- For the Family to for the Country
- Shirota Suzuko (Shirota 1971)
- Patriarchal Family as a Unit of Patriarchal Society
- Betrayal of Trust
- Prostitution Sex as a Dehumanised Process
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 6 "Comfort Women" as a Gendered National Subject
- Introduction
- Hegemonic Masculinity and Homosocial Male Bonding
- Masculinities of Citizen-Soldiers in Modern Japan
- Kikumaru as the Wife/mistress for Officers.
- Shirota Suzuko as a Witness to Brutality at War
- Nationalism as a Conspiracy of Silence
- From "Fully Fledged" Citizens to "Fully Fledged" Soldiers
- Homosocial Bond Between "Fully Fledged" Soldiers
- The Making of an Imperial Killing Machine
- Conclusion: Beyond Masculinity as Humanity
- Notes
- References
- 7 Epilogue
- Introduction
- Modern Nation-States as Imagined Communities
- The 'Circles of Memory: The "Comfort Women" and the World'
- From Empathy to Activism as Imagined Communities
- References
- Appendix Brief Life Stories of Some Japanese "Comfort Women"
- Keiko (Sasakuri Fuji)
- Miyagi Tsuru (Pseudonym)
- Mizuno Iku
- Shimada Yoshiko (Pseudonym)
- Suzumoto Aya (Pseudonym)
- Takanashi Taka
- Tanaka Tami (Pseudonym)
- Uehara Eiko (Pseudonym)
- Index.