迈向战争与性暴力的比较史

Towards a Comparative History of Sexual Violence in the War

战争与性暴力研究需要"比较史"的视野。是什么让受害者保持沉默?具备怎样的条件她们方能开口诉说?在比较的语境下,我们可以思考日军慰安妇问题的特殊性和普遍性在哪里?将可以言说的性暴力遭遇与不能言说的性暴力遭遇区别对待、加以分割的分割线在哪里?为何如此划分?历史上被创伤化、污名化的经历,我们该如何诉说?比较史能做什么?能比较些什么,又不能比较些什么?通过回答上述问题,希望能将战争与性暴力的研究向着比较史的方法论推进一步。

Studies of war and sexual violence requires the perspective of comparative history. What kept victims silent? Under what circumstances will they speak up? In comparative context,we can examine what constitutes the particularities and generalities of the prostitution of comfort women imposed by the Japanese Empire. We can also scrutinize what distinguishes the describable experience with sexual violence from the unspeakable experience. We may also ask why we make the above distinction and how we should speak about the experiences that were traumatized and stigmatized in history. This article also considers questions related to what comparative history can and cannot help us achieve. Answering these questions will help us move the studies of war and sexual violence towards the methodology of comparative history.