294 P -
From Rape to Militarized Prostitution: Sexual Violence and Nationalism
Sunday, June 4, 2017: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
BRESL 105 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
Session Abstract
This panel considers sexual violence against women in conflict situations. Yoko Hayashi explores the reform movements focusing on prostitutes in Japan around 1900 while Jeong Min Kim looks at the role of R&R in Japan during the Korean war and the trade in sex as part of the black market economy that emerged. Muhammad Uddin brings a different perspective from South Asia when discussing attacks on indigenous women by Bengali security forces, since the 1970s.
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