Chunghee Sarah Soh
Chunghee Sarah Soh or Sarah Soh is a Korean-American professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in issues of women, gender, sexuality.
Her book The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan delivers new insight into the nature of the comfort women issue.
Careers
She graduated from Sogang University in Seoul and earned Master degree and then Ph.D from the University of Hawaii in 1987. She taught cultural anthropology at universities in Hawaii in 1990, Arizona from 1990-2001 and Texas from 1991-94. She joined San Francisco State University in 1994.[1][2]
Comfort women
She wrote a book titled The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. In the book, she provocatively disputes the simplistic view that comfort women was victims of a war crime committed by the Imperial Japan. She revieled the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women. She argues South Korean nationalist politics and the international women’s human rights movement have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.[3]
Works
- Soh, Sarah (2008). The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226767779.
- Soh, Chung-Hee (1993). Women in Korean Politics. Westview Press. ISBN 0813320410.
- Soh, Chung-Hee (1991). The Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study. Praeger. ISBN 027593876X.
See also
References
- ↑ "Chunghee Sarah Soh". San Francisco State University.
- ↑ "Chunghee Sarah Soh". Institute for Corean-American Studies.
- ↑ Soh, Sarah (2008). The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226767779.
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