Comfort Woman
Subtitle: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: May 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780847691494
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War; Biography: general; Biography: historical; Prostitution; Social history; War crimes; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Philippines; Asia - General; Women; History / Asia
Description: "In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson (1928-1996) was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone.

Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public - at the urging of the Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women - with the secret she had held close for fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.