Secondary Literature on the Age of the Second World War

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.

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Rodrigo, Antonia. Mujer y Exilio 1939. Madrid: Compañía Literaria, 1999.
Rodrigo, Antonina. Mujeres para la Historia: La España silenciada del Siglo XX. Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Carena, 2002.
Rodriguez-Ruiz, Blanca, and Ruth Rubio-Marín. The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to Become Citizens. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Rogers, Anna. While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
Römer, Felix. "Gewaltsame Geschlechterordnung: Wehrmacht und „Flintenweiber“ an der Ostfront 1941/42." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 331-351. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Roodhouse, Mark. Black Market Britain, 1939-1955. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rose, Sonya O. "Temperate Heroes: Concepts of Masculinity in Second World War Britain." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 177-195. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Rose, Sonya O. Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Roseman, Mark. Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany, 1770-1968. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Rosenberg, Emily. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Rosmus, Anna. "Involuntary Abortions for Polish Forced Laborers." In Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust, edited by Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg, 76-94. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Rossiter, Margaret. Women in the Resistance. New York: Praeger, 1986.
Rothbart, Daniel, Karina V. Korostelina, and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui. Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Rouquet, Francois, Fabrice Virgili, and Daniele Voldmann. Amours, guerres et sexualité: 1914–1945. Paris: Edition Gallimard, 2007.
Rousso, Henry. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Roy, Kaushik, and Gavin Rand. Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia In Routledge.com. Delhi, India: Routledge India, 2017.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto. New York: Holiday House, 2011.
Ruiz-Berdún, Dolores, and Alberto Gomis Blanco. Compromiso Social y Género: la Historia de las Matronas en España en la Segunda República, la Guerra Civil y la Autarquía (1931-1955). Alcalá de Henares, Spain: Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares, Concejlía de Mujeres, 2017.
Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Rus, Ana Martínez. Milicianas: Mujeres Combatientes Republicanas. Madrid, Spain: Catarata, 2018.
Rutherford, Jonathan. Forever England: Reflections on Masculinity and Empire. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1997.
Ryan, Louise, and Wendy Webster. Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-war Britain. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
Saidel, Rochelle G. The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Sajor, Indai Lourdes. Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations. Quezon City, Philippines: Asian Center for Women's Human Rights, 1998.
Sakaida, Henry. Heroines of the Soviet Union, 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey, 2003.
Sala, Massimiliano. Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Sancho, Nelia. "The 'Comfort Women' System during World War II: Asian Women as Targets of Mass Rape and Sexual Slavery by Japan." In Gender and Catastrophe, edited by Ronit Lentin, 144-154. London: Zed Books, 1997.
Sarde, Michèle. À la recherche de Marie J.. Paris: Julliard, 2019.
Sarfatti, Michele. The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Sartorti, Rosalinde. "On the Making of Heroes, Heroines and Saints." In Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia, edited by Richard Stites, 176-193. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Saxe, Robert Francis. Settling Down: World War II Veterans' Challenge to the Postwar Consensus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Scharr, Adela Riek. Sisters in the Sky. Vol. 1: The WAFS (1986); 2: The WASPS (1988). St. Louis, MO: Patrice Press, 1986.
Scheck, Raffael. French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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