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- Title
Teaching 'Comfort Women' Issues in Women's Studies Courses.
- Authors
Stetz, Margaret D.
- Abstract
Presents several arguments supporting the introduction of the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, transnational materials on the comfort women of World War II, Asian women forced or coerced to become sex workers, into courses on Women's Studies and Feminism. Origins and the history of the phenomenon of comfort women; Efforts of the comfort women in seeking redressal; Significance of the support garnered by their cause from feminist organizations and academic organizations; Impact of militarization on comfort women;
- Subjects
COMFORT women; WOMEN'S studies; SEX work; FEMINISM; CURRICULUM
- Publication
Radical Teacher, 2003, Issue 66, p17
- ISSN
0191-4847
- Publication type
Article