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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Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto, 1967.
Fast, Susan, and Kip Pegley. Music, Politics, and Violence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
Fauri, Francesca, and Paolo Tedeschi. Novel Outlooks on the Marshall Plan: American Aid and European Re-Industrialization. Brussels; New York: Peter Lang, 2011.
Feder, Edna Lomsky, and Orna Sasson-Levy. Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters With the State. London: Routeledge, 2018.
Fetherston, A. B. Towards a Theory of United Nations Peacekeeping. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival. Sydney, Australia: Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Fidelis, Malgorzata. Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Firme, Annemarie, and Ramona Hocker. Von Schlachthymnen und Protestsongs: Zur Kulturgeschichte des Verhältnisses von Musik und Krieg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006.
Folman, Ari. Vals Im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir. Israel, Germany, France: Sony Pictures Classics, 2008.
Forsythe, David P. The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Forth, Christopher E., and Bertrand Taithe. French Masculinities: History, Culture, and Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Frazier, Jessica M. Women's Anti-War Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Frederiksen, Elke P., and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Freedman, Lawrence. The Cold War: A Military History (Freedman 2001). London: Cassell, 2001.
Freedman, Lawrence. War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.
French, David. The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945–1967. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Frevert, Ute. Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1997.
Furedi, Frank. "The Demobilized African Soldier and the Blow to White Prestige." In Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700–1964, edited by David Killingray and David Omissi, 179-197. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Garner, Karen. Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Gellately, Robert, and Ben Kiernan. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Gerhalter, Li, and Christa Hämmerle. Krieg-Politik-Schreiben: Tagebücher von Frauen (1918-1950). Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2015.
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh. Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.
Giles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman. Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Gillath, Nurit. "Women and Military Service in Israel, 1948–1967." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 395-414. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Gillespie, Marie, and Alban Webb. Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012). New York: Routledge, 2013.
Ginio, Ruth. The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, and Olav Njølstad. Arms Races: Technological and Political Dynamics. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute, 1990.
Gleichmann, Peter, and Thomas Kühne. Massenhaftes Töten: Kriege und Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert. Essen: Klartext, 2004.
Goldman, Nancy Loring. Female Soldiers: Combatants or Noncombatants? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Gordon, Joel. Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt. Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2002.
Gore, Dayo F. Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Goscha, Christopher E., and Christian Ostermann. Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945–1962. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

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