{"title":"“Comfort Women” Memorials at the Crossroads of Ultranationalist, Feminist, and Decolonial Critiques: Triangulating Japan, South Korea, and the United States","authors":"Lin Li","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the ongoing debate over “comfort women” memorials, especially one statue known as the Statue of Peace. Whereas Japanese ultranationalists and their foreign collaborators attack “comfort women” memorials for tarnishing Japan’s reputation and spreading historical falsities, progressive scholars sympathetic to “comfort women” victims criticize these memorials for reinforcing female chastity and anti-Japanese nationalism. Examining these varying responses to “comfort women” memorials across the Pacific, this article analyzes how Japanese ultranationalism, anti-Japanese Korean nationalism, US imperialism, and transnational feminism collide in the representation of “comfort women.” By pointing out the significance and limitations of “comfort women” memorials, this article concludes with a discussion of how socially engaged memorials can serve as critical sites for building transnational feminist coalitions in shared struggle against both wartime violence and postwar amnesia.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"116 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49419979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Differential Ethics of Belonging in a Transnational Context: Navigating the Hong Kong Movement in the US in 2020 and 2021","authors":"S. Yam","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this autoethnography, I reflect on my experience navigating the tension among different groups of local and diasporic Hongkongers as we experienced three key events: the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, the US presidential election, and the rise of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiments in the US. Through concepts from feminist and queer theories, such as differential belonging, disidentification, and transformative justice, I highlight moments of transnational coalition and barriers that render cross-national and cross-cultural solidarities difficult.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"29 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44933094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Archipelagic Penal Spaces”: The Iraqi Muslim Woman and the Abject Female Soldier in Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen","authors":"Dalia M. A. Gomaa","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The US war story is conventionally one of nation and of masculinity. Literary fiction and nonfiction by US women writers who address the war on terror and focus on women serving in the military have problematized this paradigm. Given the high number of women who joined the US military to serve in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, texts such as Love my Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams (2006), Flashes of War by Katey Schultz (2013), Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq by Jessica Goodell (2013), and Sand Queen by Helen Benedict (2011) highlight the challenges the US female soldier encounters not only on the battlefield, but also in being accepted by her male peers because she is a woman performing a masculine job. Benedict’s Sand Queen adds a twist to this still emerging literary tradition by portraying the sexually harassed US female soldier Kate Brady concurrent with the Iraqi viewpoint of the civilian, a Muslim woman named Naema al-Jubur. In this essay, I propose an archipelagic theoretical framework to examine the war on terror as it is portrayed from the perspective of the sexually harassed US female soldier and the civilian Iraqi woman, while paying close attention to the main setting of the story, Camp De Bucca. I examine the characters of Kate and Naema in light of Julia Kristeva’s feminist theory of the “abject” and Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of political violence, specifically his definition of the “sovereign sphere.”","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42634359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utah Women’s Narratives: Narrative, Performance, and Collaboration","authors":"Diane Lê Strain, Liz Debetta, A. Fukushima","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On April 15, 2021 the Gender-Based Violence Consortium premiered the Utah Women’s Narrative performance, an online performance directed by Diane Lê Strain, Francesca Hsieh, and Aimee Pike, produced by Annie Isabel Fukushima and the Gender-Based Violence Consortium. The project emerged from an attempt to create a platform for women who were willing to share their stories, particularly those who experienced marginalization related not only to their gender, but also in relation to other identities. The goal of the project was to complicate notions of gender by sharing lived experiences and taking up space in a world that typically pushes gender and racial minorities to the margins. Here the contributors, a director, producer, editors, and workshop facilitator, and reflect on the centrality of narrative in storying the self, the workshops intended to create community. We place contributions by Rae Luebber, Samme James, Sandra Del Rio Madrigal, Olivia Acosta, and Hollee McGinnis, into a larger context, submissions that were performed as part of the Utah Women’s Narrative project that included the voices of thirteen authors and ten actors. Bookending this submission are the vignettes capturing the voices of the individual authors and a poem by Debetta, by way of reflecting on the need to break the silence of how our gendered lives must be storied in publics and community. Here we offer an example of how we collaborated to create this community even in a time of global pandemic where we were separated for public health safety.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"117 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46528277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salitasyon yon manbo: Yon etid an mouvman","authors":"G. Ulysse","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"244 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43477936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Llorona","authors":"Sandra Del Rio Madrigal","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1hggk96.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hggk96.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"144 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48635407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Hatred of Clover","authors":"Olivia Acosta","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"138 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47992227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Are you?","authors":"Sammee James","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Article history: Received 13 June 2017 Received in revised form 26 July 2017 Accepted 8 August 2017 Available online 15 August 2017 The question ‘what are you or where are you from’, often serves as a point of ingress to the conversation or introduction by most Asians especially during formal or informal meetings with Africans. Thus, this article examines the phrase ‘what are you’ in relationship to African females residing in three major Asian cities. The article attempts to establish that there is more to the question; “what are you” than meet the eye. This phrase or question (What are you?) is the key finding of this study. In so doing, this article critically examines this finding in connexion to the notion of triple gender discrimination. This is in view of a good number of African women working, studying or residing in some Asian countries. Although, this study provokes more controversy than can be explained, the understanding here, is purely academically motivated. This is based on the fact, gender played an essential role in how the conclusion is shaped and illustrated. The study devoid of any racial categorization as it raised a fundamental question, why are male Africans in many Asian cities, treated differently from their female counterparts?","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"136 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45986606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tiny Town of Aunts","authors":"Rae Luebbert","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"133 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47512075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rage","authors":"Hollee Mcginnis","doi":"10.1353/fro.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"141 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45176046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}