ABSTRACT
In 1992, political scientist Cynthia Enloe reflected on a visit to the Imperial War Museum in London. The survivors are all elderly women, and in many places they are referred to as the ‘grandmothers’ – a term of respect which avoids problematic terms such as ‘comfort women’ or ‘sex slaves’. The Australian War Memorial was established at the end of the First World War as a ‘shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive’. The ‘Women in Black’ vigil and the Wednesday demonstrations also have resonances with the demonstrations of the mothers and grandmothers of the ‘disappeared’ in Argentina. In December 2016 a new museum was opened in Taipei, under the auspices of the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation. On entering the museum, one walks along a corridor which has a gallery of photographs of the ‘grandmothers’ at different stages of their lives.
