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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Campbell, D'Ann. "Inside or Outside? Women's Role in American Military History." In Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?, edited by Lois Duke Whitaker, 323-339. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Campillo, María Vidaurreta. La Guerra y la Condición Femenina en la Sociedad Industrial: el Caso de Francia. Madrid: Dirección General de la Juventud y Promoción Sociocultural, 1981.
Campos, Ângela. An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Carden-Coyne, Ana. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Castillo, Greg. "The American 'Fat Kitchen' in Europe: Postwar Domestic Modernity and Marshall Plan Strategies of Enchantment." In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, 33-67. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Castledine, Jacqueline. Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Chadwick, Justin, William Nicholson, and Nelson Mandela. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. United Kingdom, South Africa : 20th Century Fox, United International Pictures, 2013.
Chapman, Herrick. France's Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Chapman, James. War and Film. London: Reaktion, 2008.
Charrad, Mounira M. States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Chevillot, Frédérique, and Anna Norris. Des femmes écrivent la guerre. Paris: Éditions Complicités, 2007.
Chiaroni, Keren. Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire: The Life and Times of Madeleine Riffaud. London: Taylor and Francis Group, 2017.
Chickering, Roger, Dennis Showalter, and Hans van de Ven. The Cambridge History of War: War and the Modern World. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chomsky, Noam. 9-11: Was There an Alternative?. 48th ed. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
Clark, Suzanne. Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Clark, Fiona, and Caroline O. N. Moser. Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Clayton, Anthony. France, Soldiers, and Africa. London: Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1988.
Cohn, Carol. "Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War." In Gendering War Talk, edited by Miriam G. Cooke and Angela Woollacott, 227-248. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Cohn, Carol. Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Gender and French Identity After the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness. United States: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Confino, Alon, and Peter Fritzsche. The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society In The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society. Urbana Chmpaign: University of Illinois Press , 2002.
Connelly, Mark, and David Welch. War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Cooke, Miriam, and Angela Woollacott. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Cooke, Miriam. Women and the War Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Cooper, Frederick. Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Cooper, Nicola. France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. Oxford: Berg, 2001.
Cooper, Dana, and Claire Phelan. Motherhood and War: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Corber, Robert J. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Cornaton, Michel. Les camps de regroupement de la guerre d'Algérie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.
Coronado, Juan David. "I'm Not Gonna Die in this Damn Place:" Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War. East Lansing, MI, USA: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Martel, André. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1940 à nos jours, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 4. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Cowan, Benjamin A. Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Cowley, Robert. The Cold War: A Military History (Cowley 2005). New York: Random House, 2005.
Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: The Modern Library, 2010.

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