Comfort women in the arts

Comfort women – girls and women forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army – experienced trauma during and following their enslavement.^[1] Comfort stations were initially established in 1932 within Shanghai, however silence from the governments of South Korea and Japan suppressed comfort women's voices post-liberation.^[1]^[2] Catalysed by the feminist-led Redress movement of the 1990s, the cause of comfort women has since been better publicised – in part due to the role of the visual arts in promoting healing and the creation of activist communities.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Soh, Chunghee Sarah (2000). "From Imperial Gifts to Sex Slaves: Theorizing Symbolic Representations of the 'Comfort Women'". Social Science Japan Journal. 3 (1): 59–76. doi:10.1093/ssjj/3.1.59. ISSN 1369-1465. JSTOR 30209278.
^ ^a ^b Piper, Nicola (2002). "Transnational women's activism in Japan and Korea:the unresolved issue of military sexual slavery". Global Networks. 1 (2): 155–170. doi:10.1111/1471-0374.00010. ISSN 1470-2266.

[:0-1] Soh, Chunghee Sarah (2000). "From Imperial Gifts to Sex Slaves: Theorizing Symbolic Representations of the 'Comfort Women'". Social Science Japan Journal. 3 (1): 59–76. doi:10.1093/ssjj/3.1.59. ISSN 1369-1465. JSTOR 30209278.

[:1-2] Piper, Nicola (2002). "Transnational women's activism in Japan and Korea:the unresolved issue of military sexual slavery". Global Networks. 1 (2): 155–170. doi:10.1111/1471-0374.00010. ISSN 1470-2266.

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