The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese "Comfort Women"

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)
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