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Bernstein, Gail Lee, ed. Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. 1991. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.

Garon, Sheldon. "The World's Oldest Debate? Prostitution and the State in Imperial Japan, 1900-1945." American Historical Review 98.3 (1993) 710-732.

Hane, Mikiso. Peasants, rebels, and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan. New York: Pantheon,1982.

-------. Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Hicks, George. The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

Mackie, Vera. "Division of Labour: Multinational Sex in Asia." The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond. Ed. Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1988. 218-232.

Mackie, Vera C. Creating socialist women in Japan: gender, labour, and activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Raddeker, Helene Bowen. Treacherous women of imperial Japan: patriarchal fictions, patricidal fantasies. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.

Stetz, Margaret D. and Bonnie B.C. Oh, eds. Legacies of the Comfort Women of Warold War II. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.

Tonomura, Hitomi, Anne Walthall, and Wakita Haruko, eds. Women and Class in Japanese History. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1999.

Tsurumi, E. Patricia. Factory girls: women in the thread mills of Meiji Japan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Yamazaki, Tomoko. Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An episode in the history of lower-class Japanese women. Trans. Karen Colligan-Taylor. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.