Contents

Translator’s Introduction
Author’s Introduction to the English Edition 

Part I – Engendering the Nation

Methodological Issues
Paradigm Change in Post-War History
Paradigm Change in Women’s History
The Nationalism of Women and Wartime Mobilisation
The Feminist Response
The Feminist Version of “Conquering the Modern”
Female Socialist or Socialist Feminist? The Case of Yamakawa Kikue
The War Responsibility of Ordinary Women
The Dilemma of the Nation-State’s Gender Strategy
The Paradox of this Gender Strategy
Women and the Issue of Conversion
Ideas Capable of Transcending the State
A Critique of the Reflexive School of Women’s History
Going Beyond the “Nationalism of Women” Paradigm  

Part II – The Military Comfort Women Issue

A Triple Crime
The Patriarchal Paradigm of National Shame
The “Purity” of Korean Women
The Military Rape Paradigm
The Prostitution Paradigm
The Sexual Violence Paradigm
The National Discourse
The Grey Zone of Collaboration with Japan
A Uniquely Japanese or Universal Phenomenon?
Gender, Class and the Nation
“Truth” Amidst Multiple Histories  

Part III – The Politics of Memory

The Japanese Version of Historical Revisionism
The Challenge to Gender History
The Positivist Myth of Objective and Neutral History
Historicization versus an Ahistorical Approach
Oral History and Testimony
Narrating History
Reflexive Women’s History
Going Beyond the Nation-State
Can Feminism Transcend Nationalism? 

Part IV – Hiroshima from a Feminist Perspective: Between War Crimes and the Crime of War

Feminism, Peace Studies and Military Studies
Hiroshima as a Symbol
Hiroshima as seen from American Perspective
The Hauge International Court of Justice and the De-Criminalization of Nuclear Weapons
The Split in the Peace Movement
The De-Criminalization of State Violence
Two Lawless Zones
Who is a Citizen?
Public Violence and Gender
Women’s Participation in the Military
The Nationalism of Women
Between War Crimes and the Crimes of War 

Epilogue
Chronology of Related Events
Notes
References
Index