Scholarly resources
- Baik, Crystal Mun-hye. Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.
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- Choi, Chungmoo, ed. “The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex.” Special issue, positions: east asia cultures critique 5, no. 1 (1997).
- Chungmoo Choi, “Guest Editor’s Introduction” (v-xiv)
- Norma Field, “War and Apology: Japan, Asia, the Fiftieth, and After” (1-49)
- Hyunah Yang, “Revisiting the issue of Korean ‘Military Comfort Women’: The Question of Truth and Positionality” (51-71)
- Hyun Sook Kim, “History and Memory: The ‘Comfort Women’ Controversy” (73-106)
- Won Soon Park, “Japanese Reparations Policies and the ‘Comfort Women’ Question” (107-34)
- Fujime Yuki, “The Licensed Prostitution System and the Prostitution Abolition Movement in Modern Japan” (135-70)
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- Chin Sung Chung, “The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan” (219–53)
- Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, “They Are Our Grandmas” (255–75)
- Kang Tŏk-kyŏng and Kim Sun-dŏk, “Artwork by Former Comfort Women” (275–78)
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- Kandice Chuh, “Guest Editor’s Introduction: On Korean ‘Comfort Women’” (1–4)
- Kandice Chuh, “Discomforting Knowledge: Or, Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Asian Americanist Critical Practice” (5-23)
- Laura Hyun Yi Kang, “Conjuring ‘Comfort Women’: Mediated Affiliations and Disciplined Subjects in Korean/American Transnationality” (25-55)
- Lisa Yoneyama, “Traveling Memories, Contagious Justice: Americanization of Japanese War Crimes at the End of the Post-Cold War” (57-93)
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- Duncan, Patti. “Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of U.S. Militarism in South Korea.” In Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, 277-307. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- Joo, Rachael Miyung, and Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, eds. A Companion to Korean American Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
- Rachael Miyung Joo and Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, “Preliminary Material” (i–xxviii)
- Jane Hong, “1. The Origins and Construction of Korean America: Immigration before 1965” (3–20)
- Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, “2. After the Watershed: Korean Migration since 1965” (21–46)
- Kevin Y. Kim, “3. Empire, War, Globalization, and Korean America in Global and Transnational Perspectives” (47–76)
- Arissa H. Oh, “4. Adoption in Korean America” (77–103)
- Josephine Nock-Hee Park, “5. Korean American Literature” (105–127)
- Robert Ji-Song Ku, “6. ‘Is that Kimchi in My Taco?’ A Vision of Korean American Food in One Bite” (128–149)
- Ju Yon Kim, “7. Korean American Theater and Performing Arts: Networks of Practice and Bodies of Work” (150–171)
- John Lie, “8. Music and Korean America” (172–184)
- Rachael Miyung Joo, “9. Sports in Korean America” (185–206)
- Jinwon Kim, “10. Hallyu and Korean America: Transnational Connections through Cultural Consumption in New York City” (207–231)
- Angie Y. Chung, “11. The Changing Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender Relations in Contemporary Korean Immigrant Families” (233–266)
- Nadia Y. Kim, “12. Race-ing the Korean American Experience” (267–303)
- Sue-Je Lee Gage, “13. In Search of Mixed Korean America” (304–332)
- Ann H. Kim, “14. Korean Ethnicity and Asian American Panethnicity” (333–355)
- Michael Hurt, “15. Transmitting the Monumental Style: Hangukinron, ‘Diasporicity,’ and the Osmotic Flow of Transnational Korean American Identity” (356–382)
- Jerry Z. Park and Kenneth Vaughan, “16. Sacred Ethnic Boundaries: Korean American Religions” (383–417)
- Sohyun An, “17. A Review of Korean American Education Studies: Disrupting a Single Story of Model Minority Success” (418–447)
- Miliann Kang, “18. Gender, Migration, and Mobility in Korean American Communities: A Case Study of the Nail Salon Industry” (449–474)
- Heijin Lee, “19. Gender, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery: Towards a Transpacific Korean/American Studies” (475–502)
- Se Hwa Lee, “20. Closer or Estranged: Transnational Spousal Relationships between Korean Wild Geese Parents” (503–533)
- Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee, “21. Toward Queer Korean American Horizons: Diaspora, History, and Belonging” (534–558)
- Kimberly McKee, “22. Korean American Women Negotiating Confucianism, Christianity, and Immigration in Free Food for Millionaires” (559–582)
- Pei-te Lien and Rhoanne Esteban, “23. Korean Americans and Electoral Politics” (585–607)
- EunSook Lee and Hahrie Han, “24. Engaging Korean Americans in Civic Activism” (608–632)
- Pyong Gap Min, “25. Korean Produce Retailers in New York: Their Conflicts with White Distributors and Use of Ethnic Collective Actions” (633–655)
- Chinbo Chong and Jane Yunhee Junn, “26. A Wedge between Black and White: Korean Americans and Minority Race Relations in Twenty-First-Century America” (656–671)
- Soo Mee Kim, “27. Koreatown as Political Capital” (672–693)
- Kang, Laura Hyun Yi. Traffic in Asian Women. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
- Kim, Daniel Y. The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
- Kim, Elaine H., and Chungmoo Choi, eds. Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
- Kim, Nadia Y. Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
- Kim-Gibson, Dai-sil. Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women. Parkersburg, Iowa: Mid-Prairie Books, 1999.
- Lee, Jin-kyung. Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- Lee, Na Young. “The Construction of Military Prostitution in South Korea during the U.S. Military Rule, 1945-1948.” Feminist Studies 33, no. 3 (2007): 453-81.
- Min, Pyong Gap. Korean “Comfort Women”: Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
- Moon, Katharine H. S. Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
- Moon, Seungsook. “Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970.” In Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present, edited by Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon, 39-77 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
- Soh, C. Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Son, Elizabeth. Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
- Stetz, Margaret D., and Bonnie B. C. Oh, eds. Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
- Tanaka, Toshiyuki. Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Yoneyama, Lisa. Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
- Yoshiaki, Yoshimi. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. 1995. Trans. Suzanne O’Brien. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
- Yuh, Ji-Yeon. Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Web resources
“Military Sexual Slavery, 1931-1945.” Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia University, https://kls.law.columbia.edu/content/military-sexual-slavery-1931-1945.