The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan, Paperback - C. Sarah Soh

DescriptionIn an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women--mostly Korean women forced into...

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. For more than 40, 000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial f...

DescriptionIf you're an avid noodle lover--or ready to graduate from perennial favorite Ramen Noodles--look no further Experienced Asian cookbook a...

'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similariti...

Reducere. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordabl...

A groundbreaking exploration of how women artists of the 1970s combined art and protest to make sexual violence visible, creating a new kind of art...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David (Kyushu University, Japan) WeissNumber of pages: 256Collection: Bloomsbury Shinto StudiesPubli...

What Sarah doesn't know......could doom us all.It's 1988 in the middle of nowhere, Texas, and 13-year-old Sarah is about to be swept out of her bor...

In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means o...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

Reducere. One of the worst cases of sex slavery happened during the most violent time in modern history....Japan during the Second World War. The Rape of Nan...

This book brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to better understand the impact of China's rise and the...

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the develo...

Reducere. In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

Reducere. Professor Franklin Hiram King made important contributions in soil science -- soil physics and soil fertility in particular. This book, perhaps the...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Andreas HuyssenIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 184Collection:...

DescriptionWeaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer PattersonOften pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing ...

Reducere. African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segr...

DescriptionAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imp...

Drawing on examples from the ancient world to the two world wars, from the conquest of the Americas to Muslim Central Asia, this collection of essa...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending. Recognisin...

Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapo...

The aftermath of rape goes beyond the pain. It affects a person emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, and sexually. It leads to distrust ...

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in co...

Reducere. In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with...

As part of a series of reports in which RAND researchers examine the established concepts of deterrence and develop a framework for evaluating the ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Eugene LiptakIllustration(s): Black & white and colour photos.Number of pages: 64Collection: ElitePu...