Gabriela, which is part of the militant Makabayan bloc in the House, said it will also convince allies in the Senate to sponsor a counterpart resolution seeking an investigation on the
comfort woman statue's removal.
Probe on removal of comfort woman statue sought
However, the dispute over these statues, which resurfaces whenever a new memorial is erected or moved, represents a major interruption to the process of telling the
comfort woman story in such a way that it might be integrated fully into the life story of South Korea as victim-survivor nation.
Honour and Dignity: Trauma Recovery and International Law in the Issue of the Comfort Women of South Korea
Candid passages and descriptions are eye-opening and revealing: "I had become an ianfu--a
comfort woman. I learned a trick, too.
Daughters of the Dragon--A Comfort Woman's Story
She had rewritten the song to express her experience as a
comfort woman, early evidence of a creative streak that would see her become a celebrated painter in the years of the comfort women grandmothers' movement.
Music and dance in the Japanese military "comfort women" system: a case study in the performing arts, war, and sexual violence
While the three sections do give information about each woman's life and, in various degrees of detail, her time as a "
comfort woman," the primary focus seems to he on the present moment in company with Pilzer at the House of Sharing, a rest home for victims of Japanese sexual slavery.
Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women."
Comfort Woman does not believe in unpaid kindnesses.
Comfort Woman's Gold
My subject is Nora Okja Keller's novels
Comfort Woman and Fox Girl, which have come to prominence recently as key texts that break a silenced historical trauma: the enforced sexual servitude of Korean women and girls under the Japanese military occupation during World War Two, and the ongoing sex trade in South Korea under U.S.
Nora Okja Keller: telling trauma in the transnational military- (Sex)industrial complex/Nora Okja Keller: milletlerustu askeri (Seks)endustrisi sistemi icinde gelisen ruhsal sarsintilarin anlatimi
Listening to
Comfort Woman is tantamount to lying in a fleshy, ganja-induced haze.
Comfort and joy: Meshell Ndegeocello sings of pleasures sacred and profane on her sizzling new CD
Paul's United Church in Toronto, I was struck both by her courage as she remembered being a
comfort woman in Shanghai, and by her apparent struggle to meet my eyes.
50-year search for justice: war crimes against (Korean) comfort women
'The struggle of the Filipino
comfort woman needed closure and affirmation.
When Filipino politics takes center stage
In my opinion, the most unique memorial, or rather, memorials is the one in Seoul where the Dong-A Transit bus company put effigies of a "
comfort woman" seated in the front seat of 5 of its buses, one of which passes in front of the embassy of Japan.
Afraid of ghosts
Another representative organization for
comfort woman, the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan maintained a steadfast position, demanding seven actions from Tokyo.
Moon's handling of comfort women issue disappoints victims
Meanwhile, Kil said in a rally held in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul earlier Wednesday that she "didn't want to become a "
comfort woman," but she was forcibly taken to the '
comfort woman place' because her country had no power."
Ex-S. Korean sex slaves seek to meet Hashimoto, demand apology
'We believe that the establishment of a
comfort woman statue in other countries, including this case, is extremely disappointing, not compatible with the Japanese government,' the Manila Shimbun quoted the embassy statement as saying.
'Abused Korean girl' statue removed after Japan protest
In a press briefing Thursday, De Jesus stressed that the removal of
comfort woman statue should be a national issue.
Gabriela solons seek probe into removal of comfort woman statue