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Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

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Elizabeth W. SonUniversity of Michigan Press

u201cComfort womenu201d is a euphemistic term used by the Japanese military to refer to women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery during and prior to World War II. These harms went unaddressed for decades following the end of the war. This book uses archival and ethnographic research to examine the role that performance has played in protests and other calls for justice for the survivors. 

This book is the winner of the NCA Feminist and Gender Studies Divisionu2019s 2020 Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award. 

Elizabeth W. Son is an Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama Program in the School of Communication at Northwestern University.