Women’s Autobiographies by War Periods

This site gives users access to collection of women’s autobiographies organized by major war periods. In includes autobiographies written by women who actively participated in or lived through an armed conflict covered by the Oxford Handbook of Gender and  War since 1600 edited by Karen Hagemann (General Editor), Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). The focus of the collections is the twentieth century, because most autobiographies written by female authors were published in this period. The selected autobiographies are mainly written and/or published in English, French, German or Russian.

Access Women’s Autobiographies by Major War Periods

1600–1830s:

• War in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Age of the Revolutionary Wars

1830s–1910s:

• National Wars in the 19th Century
• Colonial Wars in the long 19th Century

1910s–1940s:

• Age of First World War
• Age of Second World War

1940s–Present:

• Cold War and Wars of Decolonization
• Post-Cold War Period

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