Paving the Road to Peace: Transnational Solidarity for Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan through the Observation of the Wednesday Demonstration

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dc.contributor.advisorCrosby, Alison
dc.contributor.advisorHae, Laam
dc.contributor.advisorKim, Janice
dc.contributor.authorChoi, Jin
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T18:53:02Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T18:53:02Z
dc.date.copyright2019-07
dc.date.issued2019-11-22
dc.date.updated2019-11-22T18:53:02Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThe Wednesday Demonstration is a weekly protest for former comfort women to demand an apology and legal compensation from the Japanese government. This thesis examines the different aspects of the comfort women movement through an analysis of the Wednesday Demonstration and its participants, drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted in South Korea. It also draws on secondary sources to offer a contextual analysis of the historical and political background of the comfort women movement. In this thesis, I provides a critical framework for understanding what changes have occurred within the Wednesday Demonstration that enables it to persist until today; explores how the survivors and their supporters have become allies beyond a generation gap through the weekly protests; and, through the lens of feminist perspectives, reviews how the Wednesday Demonstration has evolved into a national and transnational movement to foster solidarity.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36764
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subject.keywordsComfort women
dc.subject.keywordsIbongun wianbu halmoni
dc.subject.keywordsFeminism
dc.subject.keywordsMilitary sexual slavery
dc.subject.keywordsJapanese military sexual slavery
dc.subject.keywordsWednesday Demonstration
dc.subject.keywordsWeekly protest
dc.subject.keywordsTransnationalism
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational feminism
dc.subject.keywordsHuman rights
dc.subject.keywordsWomen's rights
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justice
dc.subject.keywordsSexual violence
dc.subject.keywordsWomen's movement
dc.subject.keywordsTransnational feminist movement
dc.subject.keywordsSolidarity
dc.subject.keywordsThe Statue of Peace
dc.subject.keywordsPyeonghwabi
dc.subject.keywordsSonyeosang
dc.titlePaving the Road to Peace: Transnational Solidarity for Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan through the Observation of the Wednesday Demonstration
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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