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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Crissey, Etsuko Takushi

Titel

American Soldiers and Okinawan Women

Ist Teil von

• Okinawa's GI Brides, 2017, p.28

Ort / Verlag

University of Hawaii Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Chapter 1 of Miyazato Etsu’s Okinawa onna-tachi no sengo (Women in postwar Okinawa) is titled “In the Beginning: Humiliation and Honor.” The authors explain, “For women, the postwar began in fear and humiliation because of the large number of rapes committed by American forces. But the U.S. military also brought to Okinawa the ideologies of democracy and women’s rights.”¹ The suffrage women sought in Japan for many years without success was finally realized by the nation’s defeat. In fact, women exercised it seven months earlier in Okinawa than on the mainland. After the Battle of Okinawa ended and Japan surrendered,