Description
This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the most explosive, round in a struggle over the legitimacy of different "narrator's" understandings of the past and its focus on the "comfort women" issue. Feminist theorist Chizuko Ueno confronts head on, in her usual lucid and hard-hitting style, the various actors in the debate. She skillfully cuts through the argument of the neo-nationalist "historical revisionists" who have attempted to deny or minimize the reality of the former "comfort women". Ueno's equally biting treatment of her natural allies - left-wing historians and feminist supporters of the "comfort women" - has also made the book highly controversial.
Author: Chizuko Ueno
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 263
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781876843595
ISBN10: 1876843594
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Nationalism & Patriotism
- History | Asia | Japan
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