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Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust and Afterward

This article foregrounds the long-overlooked sexual violence perpetrated against Jewish women during the Holocaust. It calls for fuller integration of survivors’ testimonies of sexual violence into our understanding of Holocaust history and prompts recognition of the ongoing reality of conflict-related sexual violence today.

Rochelle G. Saidel

A “Comfort Woman” Who Has Yet to Return Home, a Memory That Has Yet to Be Mourned: The Name Bae Bong-gi

Is it still possible to remember Bae Bong-gi’s life and mourn her death beyond the adversarial structure between nations?

Kim Shin Hyun-gyung

“Rape and Gender Violence are part of TRC’s Unfinished Business”: South Africa’s Ongoing Quest for Gender Justice (2)

Clearly, liberal democratic initiatives such as the enshrinement of women's rights will continue to fail until structural inequalities, as well as the social norms that allow gender-based violence, are confronted

Helen Scanlon

“Rape and Gender Violence are part of TRC’s Unfinished Business”: South Africa’s Ongoing Quest for Gender Justice (1)

Colonialism and apartheid were both predicated on the marginalization and subjugation of the population in terms of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and culture.

Helen Scanlon

Colabo’s Fights against Sexual Exploitation and Misogyny in Japan Today

Time and again, we have seen the pattern of distortions, misogyny, and gaslighting of victims of sexual violence and their advocates as corrupt and greedy money grabbers.

Sayaka Chatani

The Politics of Memory in the BTS Fandom to Resist Historical Revisionism

Lee Jeeheng

A Conversation with Stanislava Staša Zajović of Women in Black Belgrade (1)

Women who dare to speak out about sexual violence experience overwhelming anxiety across various aspects of their lives.

Stanislava Staša Zajović

A Conversation with Sue Finch of Women in Black London (1)

As the history of Women in Black shows, each Women in Black group has its own approach to feminist action, growing out of their local situation, but linked to each other through international theories and conferences.

Sue Finch

Women’s Solidarity in Our Troubled Times of Gendered Violence and War

Rada Iveković

Beyond Nationalism: The Ongoing History of the “Comfort Women” and Gender Politics

Carol Gluck

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