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Australia and the Comfort Women: Enforced Prostitution in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-1945

Australia and the Comfort Women: Enforced Prostitution in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942-1945

Norma, Caroline

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 6, 2028

ISBN10: 1350464333
ISBN13: 9781350464339
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Apr 6 2028
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the aftermath of WWII Australia undertook a number of war crime trials, and yet despite detailed records about Japanese military sexual slavery during the New Guinea Campaign, 'enforced prostitution' was not among the crimes prosecuted. This book asks why, when enforced prostitution was listed as a war crime, and both Australian and civilian authorities had reported the Japanese 'comfort women' scheme of military sexual slavery, its perpetrators were never called to justice.

Bringing unpublished evidence to light, and employing both English and Japanese archival sources, this book describes the nature and extent of the trafficking and sexual slavery of women in the Pacific theatre of war, and connects it to sexual exploitation and violence in post-war Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Australia. Highlighting the ways in which cultural assumptions about Asian women influenced the perception and treatment of the so-called 'comfort women' by Australians, it argues that this prevented the prosecution of perpetrators for war crimes, and contends that these cultural assumptions have continued to influence the business, and tolerance, of sexual slavery in Australia today.

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