Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates

Maki Kimura is Teaching Fellow at the Departmentof Political Science, University College London, and Associate Lecturer at theOpen University, UK. She has previously been involved in various projects onracial and gender equalities and has researched and taught wide-ranging issuesin gender and politics.

• 1. A Question of History.- 2. The Struggle Against Ultra-Nationalism and the Entrapment OfOrientalism.- 3. Modernity, Evil and Violence.- 4. The Origin of the ‘Comfort Women’ System.- 5. Reading the Testimonies.- 6. Listening to Women’s Voices.- 7. Representation and its Limits.- 8. Women’s Agency: From Social Stigma to Survivor-Activists.- 9. Bearing Witness to Unshareable Pain.- Bibliography