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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Damousi, Joy, and Marilyn Lake. Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Danforth, Loring M., and Riki van Boeschoten. Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Davy, Jennifer, Karen Hagemann, and Ute Kätzel. Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
de Volo, Lorraine Bayard. Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Dean, Robert D. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Decker, Alicia Catharine. In Idi Amin's Shadow : Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda. Athens, USA: Ohio University Press, 2014.
Deltombe, Thomas Domergue, Jacob Tatsitsa, and Manuel Domergue. Kamerun!: Une guerre cachée aux origines de la Françafrique (1948-1971). Paris: La Découverte, 2011.
Di Cintio, Marcello. Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2018.
Diehl, James. The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans after the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Dippel, John Van Houten. War and Sex: A Brief History of Men's Urge for Battle. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2010.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Dower, John W. Culturas de Guerra: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 11 de Septiembre, Iraq. Barcelona, Spain: Pasado & Presente, 2010.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1870 à nos jours. Vol. 2. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
Dumančić, Marko. "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Histories of Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War." In Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck, 1-11. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.
Dunn, Seamus, and T.G. Fraser. Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge, 1996.
Durham, Martin. Women and Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Eager, Paige Whaley. From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
Edmondson, Linda Harriet. Gender in Russian History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
M. Edwards, Kathryn. Contesting Indochina: French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016.
Eifler, Christine, and Ruth Seifert. Soziale Konstruktionen: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnis. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999.
Eisner, Rivka Syd. Performing Remembering: Women's Memories of War in Vietnam. New York: Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, and Sheila Tobias. Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
Engel, Barbara Alpern. "On the Eve: Gender, Historiography and the Prelude to Revolution." In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Melanie Ilic, 55-68. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Enloe, Cynthia H. The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Ennaji, Moha, and Fatima Sadiqi. Gender and Violence in the Middle East. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Estes, Steve. Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Estes, Steve. "Man the Guns: Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 185-203. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Evangelista, Matthew. Gender, Nationalism and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Evans, Martin. Algeria: France's Undeclared War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1965.

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