ABSTRACT
How would war and militarism and resistance of them look if they were analyzed through the prostituted body? Although military prostitutes have long been conducting sexualized labor in the global war theater, their bodily experiences have been rarely considered in religious ethics regarding war and peace. With an attention to the collective body of the Korean prostitutes (pejoratively called by the name of Western Princess), who have catered to American soldiers stationed in South Korea for more than six decades, this chapter argues that war is “necropolitical” which always relies on the “necropolitical labor” of those whose bodies are condemned to death. Furthermore, the chapter elaborates on the idea of spiritual activism embodied by the Korean military prostitutes whose bodies actively seek to heal militarized trauma (e.g. gender-based sexual violence) and resist transnationalized U.S. militarism through Christian faith, the faith articulated and practiced by the prostitutes.
