Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club,
      by Anne Allison. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body,
      by Shannon Bell. Indiana University Press, 1994.

Patterns of Culture,
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture,
      by Ruth Benedict. Houghton Mifflin, 1989 [1946].

Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community,
      by Gail Lee Bernstein. Stanford University Press, 1983/1996.

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism,
      by Sandra Buckley, Ed. University of California Press, 1997.

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II,
      by Iris Chang. Penguin Books, 1997.

Masculinities,
      by R. W. Connell. University of California Press, 1995.

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History,
      by Bruce Cumings. W.W.Norton and Company, 1997.

Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life,
      by Sheldon Garon. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community,
      by Faye D. Ginsburg. University of California Press, 1989.

Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop,
      by Ivan Hall. W.W.Norton, 1997.

The Comfort Women:
      Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War,
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True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women,
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The Idea of Prostitution,
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Home Was the Land of Morning Calm : A Saga of a Korean-American Family,
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Women Struggling for a New Life,
      by Ai Ra Kim. State University of New York Press, 1996.

The Culture of Korean Industry: An Ethnography of Poongsan Corporation,
      by Choong Soon Kim. The University of Arizona Press, 1992.

Liquid Life: Abortion & Buddhism in Japan,
      by William LaFleur. Princeton University Press, 1992.

Quiet Odyssey : A Pioneer Korean Woman in America,
      by Mary Paik Lee. University of Washington Press, 1990.

Polite Lies: On being a woman caught between cultures,
      by Kyoko Mori. Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies,
      by Yuko Ogasawara. University of California Press, 1998.

The Dreams of Two Yi-Min,
      by Margaret K. Pai. University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan,
      by Jennifer Robertson, University of California Press, 1998.

The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery,
Volumes I & II,
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Japanese Sense of Self,
      by Nancy Rosenberger, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

A Women Scorned: Acquaintence Rape on Trial,
      by Peggy Reeves Sanday, University of California Press, 1997.

Japan: A Reinterpretation,
      by Patrick Smith, Pantheon Books, 1997.

Women in Korean Politics,
      by Chunghee Sarah Soh, Westview, 1993.

Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
      by A. Stiglmayer, ed. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia,
      by Sandra Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus. The New Press, 1992.

Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia,
      by James L. Watson (ed.) Stanford University Press, 1997.