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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Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Sarzynski, Sarah. Revolution in the Terra Do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Saxe, Robert Francis. Settling Down: World War II Veterans' Challenge to the Postwar Consensus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Scheibach, Michael. Protecting the Home Front: Women in Civil Defense in the Early Cold War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
Scheina, Robert. Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Professional Soldier, 1900-2001. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003.
Scheipers, Sibylle. Prisoners in War. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, and Philippe Bourgois. Violence in War and Peace. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Schofield, John, and Wayne Cocroft. A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007.
Schulz, Kristina. The Women's Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes. Vol. Volume 22: Series "Protest, culture and society". New York: Berghahn, 2017.
Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Secunda, Eugene, and Terence P. Moran. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Segal, Lotte B. No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Sethna, Christabelle, and Steve Hewitt. Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
Sharoni, Simona. Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Sherry, Michael S. In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Shlaim, Avi. "The Middle East: The Origins of the Arab-Israel Wars." In Explaining International Relations Since 1945, edited by Ngaire Woods, 219-240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Simic, Ivan. Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Simon, Rita James. Women in the Military (Book 2017). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Sivan, Emmanuel, and Jay M. Winter. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sjoberg, Laura. Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Sluga, Glenda, and Patricia Clavin. Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Smith, Angela. Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations. Baltimore, MD: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Smith, Angela K., and Sandra Barkhof. War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Stapleton, Timothy. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011.
Stern, Maria, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Naomi. Cahn, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. "Knowing Masculinities in Armed Conflict?: Reflections from Research in the Democratic Republic of Congo." In The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, 532-545. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Stoehr, Irene. "Cold War Communities: Women's Peace Politics in Postwar West Germany, 1945–1952." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 311-334. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Stone, Dan. The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
Stone, Dan. The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Strachan, Hew. European Armies and the Conduct of War. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.

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