{"product_id":"traffic-in-asian-women-laura-hyun-yi-kang-9781478009665","title":"Traffic in Asian Women","description":"In \u003ci\u003eTraffic in Asian Women\u003c\/i\u003e Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of \"Asian women\" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power\/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military \"comfort system\" (1932-1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the \"comfort women\" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how \"Asian women\" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of \"comfort women\" stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Hyun Yi Kang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478009667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478009665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021","brand":"Laura Hyun Yi Kang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995844477183,"sku":"9781478009665","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c062e9ef-28b2-4652-a408-e7dfd8fbb413.jpg?v=1683338186","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traffic-in-asian-women-laura-hyun-yi-kang-9781478009665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}