History of Comfort Women in Japan

a link recommended by artemisia on August 1, 2005 - 4:40pm

This article examines the Japanese controversy over the "comfort women" (ianfu) system during Japan's Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) and attempts to include that history in school textbooks.... The testimonies given by former comfort women in the 1990s forever changed the paradigm of historical research on the subject....


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I really liked this part, although it was the prologue
Comment by DreamOfPeace posted August 1, 2005 - 7:41pm

Teachers working at different levels of education--from a classroom where twelfth grade students read I, Rigoberta Menchu[3] to a classroom at Yale where college students watched films of Holocaust survivors[4]-- have reported that the testimonial narratives of previously marginalized voices have powerful transformative effects upon the consciousness and actions of students.

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mee too!
Comment by artemisia posted August 1, 2005 - 8:32pm

it's so important to expose students (and everyone else) to the reality of oppression in the first person.

and rigoberta menchu is one of my personal heroines!


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One of my favorite Proverbs
Comment by DreamOfPeace posted August 1, 2005 - 8:36pm

'Tales of the hunt, as told by the hunter, never glorify the lion.'?

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oooooooooo
Comment by artemisia posted August 1, 2005 - 8:39pm

i like that!


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