{"id":601,"date":"2023-05-24T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=601"},"modified":"2023-10-23T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:57:55","slug":"postcolonial-subjects-of-japanese-military-comfort-women-reconstructing-boundaries-shifting-identities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/postcolonial-subjects-of-japanese-military-comfort-women-reconstructing-boundaries-shifting-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcolonial Subjects of Japanese Military \u2018Comfort Women\u2019: Reconstructing Boundaries, Shifting Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\">&lt; Back to Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>November 13th, 2013 \u2013 Postcolonial Subjects of Japanese Military \u2018Comfort Women\u2019: Reconstructing Boundaries, Shifting Identities, presented by Na-Young Lee (USC)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-602 size-full\" src=\"\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/nov_13.png\" alt=\"Na young lee event poster\" width=\"540\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/nov_13.png 540w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/nov_13-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>In this talk, Na-Young Lee explores the ways in which Japanese military \u201ccomfort women\u201d have changed and reconstructed their identities, especially in relationship to the historical trajectory of the Korean women\u2019s movement, as well as women\u2019s testimonies. Lee argues that women, who suffered both from the Japanese military sexual slave system during Japanese colonization in Korea and from Korean patriarchy system that has continued post-liberation, have transformed their own identities from victims to transnational activists, and from hidden ghosts to historical subjects. Within the past twenty or so years, women have been actively engaged in movements against imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and patriarchy across national boundaries. Particularly, by focusing on the weekly \u201cWednesday Demonstration\u201d in front of Seoul\u2019s Japanese embassy, and through the formation of the Butterfly Fund (led by former Japanese \u201ccomfort\u201d women), Lee describes \u201cgrandma\u201d (halmoni in Korean), not as a helpless victim, but as a symbol of peace and women\u2019s rights across time and space. Produced, in-part, with generous support from the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/\">USC Department of American Studies &amp; Ethnicity (ASE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Na-Young Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, and a Visiting Scholar of the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California (USC). Since graduating from the Department of Women\u2019s Studies at the University of Maryland in 2006 with dissertation titled \u201cConstruction of U.S. Camptown Prostitution: Empire, Nation, and Resistance,\u201d she has developed wide ranging research interests, such as politics of representation, political economy of globalization, post\/colonialism, gendered nationalism, sexuality, and women\u2019s cross-national movements.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has published many books and articles in Korean and English, covering subjects, such as \u201ccomfort women,\u201d U.S. military bases, prostitution, gendered space, women\u2019s oral history, and migration. In addition, as an active participant in the field of Japanese military sexual slavery, and the anti-prostitution and anti-US military prostitution movements, she has served on the boards of various professional associations for Women\u2019s Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Her publications include Feminist Oral History: Deconstructing Institutional Knowledge (co-editor) (2012), Post\/Modern Asia and Women (co-author) (2011); \u201cListening Experiences of Military Prostitute: Anxiety of Post\/Colonality and Im\/Possibility of Ethical Representation,\u201d (2011); \u201cWomen\u2019s Movement for\/on \u2018Comfort Women\u2019: Historical Present in the Context of Postcolonial Nation-State.\u201d (2010); \u201cRadical Feminism and Sexuality: Theorizing History and Sexuality.\u201d (2009); and \u201cThe Construction of Military Prostitution in South Korea during the U.S. Military Rule, 1945-1948.\u201d (2007).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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