C. Sarah Soh is professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University and the author of Women in Korean Politics.
A courageous, judicious, and well-written book that refuses to yield to knee-jerk responses or politically correct narratives, but rather insists on setting the comfort women within broader historical and cultural contexts. Sympathetic and sensitive, C. Sarah Soh nevertheless challenges both feminist and ethnic nationalist paradigms in an astonishing display of objectivity. - Gail Lee Bernstein, author of Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family