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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Stueck, William. The Korean War: An International History (Stueck 1995). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Stur, Heather Marie. Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Sylvester, Christine. Experiencing War. London: Routledge, 2011.
Taipale, Ilkka, Helena P. Mäkelä, Kati Juva, Vappu Taipale, Sergei Kolesnikov, Raj Mutalik, and Michael Christ. War or Health?: A Reader. London: Zed Books, 2002.
Tanaka, Toshiyuki, and Marilyn Blatt Young. Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History. New York: New Press, 2009.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Thiele, Martina, Tanja Thomas, and Fabian Virchow. Medien – Krieg – Geschlecht: Affirmationen und Irritationen sozialer Ordnungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
Thomas, Martin, Bob Moore, and L. J. Butler. The Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe’s Imperial States, 1918–1975. London: Hodder Education, 2008.
Thompson, John A. A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Tischler, Barbara. "The Antiwar Movement." In A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, 384-402. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Toler, Pamela D. Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.
Townsend, Charles. The Oxford History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Tripp, Charles. The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Turner, Karen G. ""Vietnam" as a Women's War." In A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, 93-111. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Turner-Gottschang, Karen, and Phan Thanh Hao. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: Wiley, 1998.
Tuszynska, Agata. Vera Gran: The Accused. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Uchendu, Egodi. Women and Conflict in the Nigerian Civil War. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.
Ulbrich, David J., and Bobby A. Wintermute. Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: Harper Perennial, 2000.
Vergès, Françoise. Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Vince, Natalya. Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.
Voirim, Lisandro Cañón. "El Cambio de Orientación de las Fuerzas Armadas de Argentina y la Doctrina de Guerra Nacional." In Conflicto, Negociación y Resistencia en las Américas, edited by Izsakun Sánchez Cuartero, 315-330. Salamanca, Spain: Universidad de Salamanca, 2018.
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. Re-Evaluating Women's Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Vuic, Kara Dixon. Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Vuic, Kara D. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military In Routeledge Histories. New York; London: Routledge, 2018.
Wada, Haruki. The Korean War: An International History (Wada 2014). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Ward, Geoffrey C. The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Weiner, Gaby. "Layers of Concealment: Post-War Cultures of Surveillance and Secrecy in the Lives of Jewish Refugees, as Exemplified by the Case of Steffi Dinger." In Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts, edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, 47-58. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017.
Weinreb, Alice. "Kitchen Debates: The Family Meal and Female Labor in East and West Germany." In Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, 164-195. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Weitz, Eric D. Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Welch, David, and Jo Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Welch, David. Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013.

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