Women’s Autobiographies by Author

This site allows users to browse for entries in the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on "Gender and War since 1600" sorted by

  1. Author/Director of publication or film (ordered alphabetically)
  2. Title of publication or film (ordered alphabetically)
  3. Year of Publication/Release of publication or film (ordered numerically)
  4. Type of Literature (books, book chapters, films, journals, journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, theses, websites, etc.) (ordered by literature types in the listed sequence and then alphabetically)

Users can export their selected list of literature organized by author, title, year of publication or type of literature when they click below on RTF.

The website is equipped with an OPEN URL FEATURE that allows users to immediately check whether articles, books, etc., are available in their local libraries. An OPEN URL is a standardized link that carries citation information. When a user clicks on an OPEN URL link, the information it contains is sent to a library's URL Resolver (aka link server). The OPEN URL resolver then looks through the library's subscriptions to determine if your institution has purchased the full text of the resource and where it can be found. To use the OPEN URL feature click on the button "Search Locally."

This site allows you to access the collection of women’s autobiographies organized by the last name of the authors. The collection includes autobiographies written by women who actively participated in or lived through an armed conflict covered by the Oxford Handbook 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 this collection is the twentieth century as the period during which the relevant autobiographies were published. The included autobiographies are mainly written and/or published in English, French, German or Russian. To search the collection, go to the Keyword Search Page


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Kelly, Emma Chenault, and Alice Elizabeth Tolle. Emmaline Goes to War. Charleston, IL: BLT & J Pub., 1992.
Kern, Ilse. Looking Back. Nokomis, FL: Hauert Press, 2004.
Kochendoerfer, Violet A. One Woman's World War II. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Lacy, Mary. The Female Shipwright. London: National Maritime Museum, 2008.
Lamata, Luis Alberto. Miranda Regresa. Venezuela: Amazonia Films, 2007.
Lamata, Luis Alberto. Taita Boves. Venezuela: Cines Unidos de Venezuela, 2010.
Leazenby, Betty Cole. My Military Life. Indianapolis, IN: Betty Cole Leazenby, 1985.

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