Secondary Literature on the Post-Cold War Period

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Wars in former Yugoslavia (1991–99)
  • U.S. Wars in the Middle East (1990–)
  • Wars of Globalization
  • UN Peacekeeping / New Humanitarianism

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Abdulhadi, Rabab, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber. Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Afflerbach, Holger, and Hew Strachan. How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Afshar, Haleh, and Deborah Eade. Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives. Oxford: Oxfam, 2004.
Al-Ali, Nadje Sadig. Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present. Zed Books, 2007.
Al-Ali, Nadje, and Nicola Pratt. What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Al-Ali, Nadje, and Nicola Pratt. Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives. London: Zed Books, 2009.
Al-Jawaheri, Yasmin Husein. Women in Iraq: The Gender Impact of International Sanctions. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers, 2008.
Ali, Zahra. "The Fragmentation of Gender in Post-Invasion Iraq." In The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, edited by Amal Ghazal and Jens Hanssen, 427-443. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Alinia, Minoo. Honor and Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan. New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Allen, Beverly. Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Altınay, Ayşe Gül, and Andrea Pető. Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence. London: Routledge, 2016.
Anderson, Nancy P. The Very Few, the Proud: Women in the Marine Corps, 1977/2001. Quantico, VA: History Division, United States Marine Corps, 2017.
Aoláin, Fionnuala Ní, Naomi Cahn, and Dina Francesca Haynes. On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and The Post-Conflict Process. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Ariño, Maria Villellas. La Violencia Sexual como Arma de Guerra. Barcelona, Spain: Escola de Cultura de Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010.
Askin, Kelly Dawn. War Crimes against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. The Hague: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 1997.
Athanasiou, Athena. Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Atkin, Nicholas. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Azkue, Irantzu Mendia, Gloria Guzmán Orellana, and Iker Zirion Landaluze. Género y justicia transicional: movimientos de mujeres contra la impunidad. Bilbao, Spain: Hegoa, 2017.
Azkue, Irantzu Mendia. Género y rehabilitación posbélica : El caso de Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bilbao, Spain: Hegoa, 2009.
Azkue, Irantzu Mendia. La División Sexual del Trabajo por la Paz: Género y Rehabilitación Posbélica en El Salvador y Bosnia-Herzegovina In (Estado y sociedad). Madrid, Spain: Tecnos, D.L., 2014.
Babic, Annessa. America's Changing Icons: Constructing Patriotic Women from World War I to the Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Bachmann, Jan, Colleen Bell, and Caroline Holmqvist. War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention. London: Routledge, 2015.
Bah, Abu. International Security and Peace-Building: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Bahun, Sanja, and V. G. Julie Rajan. Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2015.
Baines, Erin. Buried in the Heart: Women, Complex Victimhood and the War in Northern Uganda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Baines, Erin K. Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004.
Baker, Catherine. The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. London: Palgrave, 2015.
Barnett, Michael. Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Barros, Andrew, and Martin Thomas. The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil-Military Divide, 1914-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Bell, Jerri, and Tracy Crow. It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books; University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Bemporad, Elissa, and Joyce W. Warren. Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2018.
Benedict, Helen. The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2009.
Berdahl, Mats. "The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited." In The Changing Character of War, edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, 109-133. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Berry, Marie E. War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Bloxham, Donald, and Robert Gerwarth. Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Boesten, Jelke. "Sexual Violence in War." In Sexual Violence During War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-Conflict Justice in Peru, 19-42. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Booth, Ken. The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions. London: Frank Cass, 2001.

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