Sexual Violence in Asia and Eastern Europe

Maren Stefanie Röger, Joohee Kim (red.)

Sexual Violence in Asia and Eastern Europe

The Silent Aftermaths of World War II

In the wake of ongoing global concern over conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), this volume brings together innovative research on the gendered legacies of the Second World War across the “Global Easts.” Focusing on East Asia and the eastern parts of Europe, the book explores how sexual violence—ranging from the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system to the massive assaults committed by German and Soviet forces—has been remembered, silenced, or politicized in the decades that followed. The contributions span four thematic sections: from comparative analyses of wartime violence to postwar justice frameworks, patterns of selective remembrance, and media representations of gendered trauma. Edited by Joohee Kim and Maren Röger, renowned scholars of gender and memory studies in the respective regions, the volume connects these global areas through their shared histories of imperial domination, Cold War divisions, and the belated surfacing of survivors’ voices. By uncovering these entanglements, the book offers a new conceptual and geographical lens on the Global Easts.
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Maren Stefanie Röger

Maren Röger is Professor of Central and Eastern European History at Leipzig University and Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO). Her research focuses on the history of mass violence and its aftermath in memory and politics, with a special interest in gendered dimensions.

Joohee Kim

Joohee Kim is Assistant Professor at Duksung Women’s University in South Korea. Her research examines the political economy of sexuality within East Asian capitalism, with a particular focus on the political and cultural dynamics of industrialized prostitution.
Titel
Sexual Violence in Asia and Eastern Europe
Subtitel
The Silent Aftermaths of World War II
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Prijs
€ 134,00
ISBN
9789048577057
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Hardback
Aantal pagina's
298
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048577057
Afmetingen
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Serie
Global Easts
Categorieën
War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
Eastern Central Europe
Gender and Queer Studies
Modern History
South East Asia
Discipline
Social and Political Sciences
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Section 1: Two Theaters of War
The Aftermaths of Sexual Violence in the Global Easts: An Introduction to Entangled Temporalities - Joohee Kim and Maren Röger
The In/Visibility of Sexual Violence during World War II in Asia and Europe. Notes on Contested Memories and a Persistent Lack of Awareness of Injustice Regina Mühlhäuser
Section 2: Postwar Legal and Political Frames
Sexual Violence Under Nazi Occupation and Its Postwar Prosecution at Soviet Trials of Axis Military Personnel - Franziska Exeler
Recognition Without Participation: Korea–Japan “Comfort Women” Diplomacy - Hunmi Lee
Mechanisms of Silence: "Comfort Women” Voices in the Postcolonial Cold War Regime - Hyun Gyung Kim
Section 3: Patterns of Selective Speaking
The Red Army Soldiers Who Rape: Sexual Violence in World War II and Its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe - Andrea Pet.
Money, War, and Gender: The Debate Over the Savings of Japanese Military “Comfort Women” - Joohee Kim
Children Born of Soviet Wartime Rape in Poland: The Long Silence - Jakub Ga..ziowski
Section 4: Mass Media and CRSV
The Ventriloquized Voice: Postmemorial Representations of Japanese Military “Comfort Women” in Contemporary South Korean Documentaries - Juyeon Bae
Faith, Love, Anticommunism: Sexualized Violence in Contemporary Central European Cinema - Maren Röger and Coline Gérard
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Recensies en Artikelen

These excellent essays on wartime sexual violence in the “Global Easts”–East Asia and Eastern Europe–reveal not only the postwar silence and silencing of the victims but also the social and political factors that long prevented them from seeking or receiving justice, while the comparative perspective makes it clear that similar obstacles to public acknowledgment existed in nearly every country, if in different ways and to different extents. A welcome and important contribution to the scholarship on sexual violence.
Carol Gluck, Professor of History, Columbia University

This book offers compelling, often moving explorations of the legacy of sexual violence in contrasting contexts in East Asia and East Central Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. The contributions illuminate why victims often did not speak about their experiences, or were not listened to; they also analyze cases where a wider public did start to engage with what victims had to say, sometimes taking up these narratives for political ends.
Elizabeth Harvey, Professor of European History, University of Nottingham

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