Colonized bodies

This chapter examines how Korean grassroots activism of Korean wartime sex slaves, euphemistically known as ‘comfort women’, converges with intersectional feminism and global solidarity of the Korean diaspora. The ‘comfort women’ redress movement was spearheaded by feminist scholars and Christian women’s organizations both in Korea and in America almost simultaneously but has expanded beyond limited credal and national lines. Although the movement in Korea is more related to democratization, and the case in the U.S. is the prime example of grassroots activism by immigrants, both redress movements are deeply integrated with sexual exploitation, societal inequalities, and haunting memories of the war and colonization

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