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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Peled, Yoav, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Gai Mundlaḳ, and Jean L. Cohen. Democratic Citizenship and War. New York; London: Routledge, 2011.
Penn, Shana, and Jill Massino. Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Penslar, Derek J. Jews and the Military: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Peteet, Julie Marie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Phillips, Kathy J. Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Phillips, Kimberley L. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Pieper-Mooney, Jadwiga E., and Fabio Lanza. De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change. London: Routledge, 2013.
Poiger, Uta G. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Pojmann, Wendy A. Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
Ponzanesi, Sandra. Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Presley, Cora Ann. "Kikuyu Women and the Mau Mau Rebellion." In In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History, edited by Gary Y. Okihiro, 115-137. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
Presley, Cora Ann. Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Pugliese, Stanislao G. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Quataert, Jean H. "War-Making and Restraint by Law: The Formative Years, 1864-1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 142-162. Vol. 4: War in the Modern World, 1850–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Rae, Alexis. Mildred Mortimer, Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Rastegar, Kamran. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Regulska, Joanna, and Bonnie G. Smith. Women and Gender in Postwar Europe: From Cold War to European Union. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012.
Rehding, Alexander. Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Reid, Susan E. ""Our Kitchen Is Just as Good": Soviet Responses to the American Kitchen." In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, 83-112. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Reid, Susan E., Melanie Ilič, Susan E. Reid, and Lynne Attwood. "Women in the Home." In Women in the Khrushchev Era, 149-176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Reynolds, David. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Rhodes, Richard. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. London: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz: Eine Geschichte 1864–1990. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Für Humanität in Krieg und Frieden: Das Internationale Rote Kreuz, 1863-1977. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.
Roach, Jay. Trumbo. United States: Bleecker Street, 2015.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Rupp, Leila J., and Verta A. Taylor. Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Rushton, Patricia. Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
Ruthenberg, Amy. "Service by Other Means: Changing Perceptions of Military Service and Masculinity in the United States, 1940-1973." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 165-184. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Sa'di, Ahmad H., and Lila Abu-Lughod. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
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.

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