Lolas' House

Filipino Women Living with War

by M. Evelina Galang

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Pub Date 15 Sep 2017 | Archive Date 7 Aug 2017

Northwestern University Press | Curbstone Books 2

Biographies & Memoirs | History

Description

During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.”

M. Evelina Galang enters into the lives of the women at Lolas’ House, a community center in metro Manila. She accompanies them to the sites of their abduction and protests with them at the gates of the Japanese embassy. Each woman gives her testimony, and even though the women relive their horror at each telling, they offer their stories so that no woman anywhere should suffer wartime rape and torture.

Lolas’ House is a book of testimony, but it is also a book of witness, of survival, and of the female body. Intensely personal and globally political, it is the legacy of Lolas’ House to the world.

Advance Praise

“This book is the last stand of women who survived the kidnapping and rape that was Japanese army strategy in World War II. Courageous, aged grandmothers tell their stories and show their wounded bodies to Evelina Galang as evidence that these crimes occurred. Hopefully, Lola’s House will end denial and get justice, reparations, and a place in the history books for these women and their 400,000 sisters.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts