Title: Comfort Woman
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Comfort women, Prostitution, World War, 1939-1945, Women, Atrocities, History, Prostitutes, Prostitution, asia, Philippines, biography, Women, philippines, Women, biography, Biography, Sources, Filipino Personal narratives
LC classification: IN PROCESS