Women's Autobiographies on the Cold War and Wars of Decolonization

This bibliography focuses on women's autobiographies, diaries and memoirs (as well as a few letter connections). These authors participated in and/or lived through various, Western armed conflict and wrote about their experiences in English, French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Cold War (1946–91)
  • Arab-Israeli Conflicts (1947–)
  • War of Indonesian Independence (1945–49)
  • Korean War (1950–53)
  • African Wars for Independence (1952–)
  • Algerian War (1954–62)
  • Indochina Wars (1946–79)

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Belmonte, Laura A. "A Family Affair? Gender, the U.S. Information Agency, and Cold War Ideology, 1945-1960." In Culture and International History, edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Frank Schumacher, 79-93. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat. Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bender, Daniel E., and Jana K. Lipman. Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Benjamin, Thomas. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Bennett, Huw C. Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Berger, Thomas U. War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Bergman, Arlene Eisen. Women of Viet Nam. San Francisco, CA: Peoples Press, 1975.
Berry, Mike, and Greg Philo. Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Berry, Marie E. War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Bhebe, Ngwabi, and Terence Ranger. Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: James Currey, 1995.
Bhebe, Ngwabi, and Terence Ranger. Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: J. Currey, 1995.
Biess, Frank, and Robert G. Moeller. Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Black, Allida. "Are Women ‘Human’? The UN and the Struggle to Recognize Women’s Rights as Human Rights." In The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, edited by Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde and William I. Hichcock, 133-158. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1815-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Black, Jeremy. The Cold War: A Military History (Black 2015). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Blom, Ida, and Sølvi Sogner. Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie: fra vikingtid til 2000-årsskiftet. Oslo, Norway: Cappelen akademisk forlag, 1999.
Blomstedt, Larry. Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America's First Undeclared War. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Bloxham, Donald, and Robert Gerwarth. Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Boggs, Carl, and Tom Pollard. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2007.
Bond, Brian. War and Society in Europe, 1870–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
Branch, Daniel. Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Branche, Raphaëlle. La Guerre d'Algérie: Une histoire apaisée?. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2005.
Branche, Raphaëlle. La torture et l’armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie, 1954–1962. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
Branche, Raphaëlle, and Fabrice Virgili. Rape in Wartime. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Braudy, Leo. From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brown, Timothy Scott. West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Brühöfener, Friederike. "Sending Young Men to the Barracks: West Germany’s Struggle over the Establishment of New Armed Forces in the 1950s." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 , edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 145-164. Baltimore; Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University Press ; Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014.
Brun, Catherine, and Todd Shepard. Guerre d'Algérie : Le sexe outragé. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016.
Bucher, Greta. Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945-1953 In East European monographs ;; no. 682; Variation: East European monographs ;; no. 682. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2006.
Bucur-Deckard, Maria. Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Bunton, Martin. The Palestinian-Israel Conflict: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Burg, B. R. Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Cain, Shannon, and Lisa Bowden. Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 2008.

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