Chunghee Sarah Soh

This is a Korean name; the family name is Soh.

Chunghee Sarah Soh
Alma mater	Sogang University University of Hawaii
Occupation	Sociocultural anthropologist
Employer	San Francisco State University
Korean name
Hangul	소정희
Hanja	蘇貞姫
Revised Romanization	So Jeonghui
McCune–Reischauer	So Chŏnghŭi

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's 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.

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 were victims of a war crime were solely the fault of Imperial Japan. Instead, she argues that both the Japanese military and the Korean patriarchy are at fault. She asserts that because of the patriarchy that dominated Korea at the time, homes were unstable and thus young girls were more likely to leave, a situation which allowed the Imperial Japanese military to coerce them into military brothels. Additionally, 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.

See also

• An Byeong-jik
• Lee Young-hoon
• Park Yu-ha
• Diary of a Japanese military brothel manager

External links

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