[Note: This bibliography derives directly from A Sense of History: a Select Bibliography on the History of Singapore, the more complete on-line list of materials compiled by The National University of Singapore Library edited and translated into html by Tim Yap Fuan. I have omitted many items, chiefly undergraduate and graduate theses written at the former University of Malaya and elsewhere, generally obtainable outside the NUS library. Singaporean users should consult the original on-line bibliography. See also Audrey Chia's bibliography, "Women and Work in Singapore ."[GPL]
Brownfoot, Janice N. "Memsahibs in colonial Malaya: a study of European wives in a British colony and protectorate 1900-1940." IN Callan, H. and Ardener, S., eds. The incorporated wife. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 186-218. [HQ759 Inc]
Chiang, Claire. "Female migrants in Singapore: towards a strategy of pragmatism and coping." IN Jaschok, M. and Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 238-263. Looks at the lives of shan-shui women in the Singapore of the 1930s. [HQ1768 Wom]
Fong, Monica S. Female labor force participation in a modernizing society: Malaya and Singapore, 1921-1957. Honolulu: East-West Population Institute, East-West Center, 1975. 39p. [HD6205.1 Fon]
Lai, Ah Eng. Peasants, proletarians, and prostitutes: a preliminary investigation into the work of Chinese women in colonial Malaya. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986. 115p. Revised version of thesis (M.A.), Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, 1981. [HD6205.1 Lai]
Lim, Janet. Sold for silver: an autobiography. London: Collins, 1958. 255p. [DS599.51 Lim]
Warren, James Francis. "Chinese prostitution in Singapore: recruitment and brothel organisation." IN Jaschok, M. and Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 77-107. Examined how prostitution was organised and regulated in the period from 1880 to 1940. [HQ1768 Wom]
Warren, James Francis. "Prostitution and the politics of venereal disease: Singapore, 1870-98." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 21(2): 360-383, 1990. [DS501 JSAS]
Miers, Suzanne. Mui tsai through the eyes of the victim: Janet Lim's story of bondage and escape. IN Jaschok, M. and Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 108-121. Janet Lim, author of Sold for silver, recalls how she was sold in 1930 and then imported into Singapore as a mui tsai, her years of servitude and her subsequent escape, and the impact of those years on her life. [HQ1768 Wom]
Warren, James Francis. Chinese prostitution in Singapore: recruitment and brothel organisation. IN Jaschok, M. and Miers, S., eds. Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude, and escape. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University, 1994. Pp. 77-107. Examined how prostitution was organised and regulated in the period from 1880 to 1940. [HQ1768 Wom]
