An edition of Comfort Woman (1996)
Comfort Woman
A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military
By Maria Rosa Henson
Publish Date
May 25, 1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,Rowman & Littlefield
Language
eng
Pages
140
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.