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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Holm, Michael. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
Huffman, J. Ford, and Tammy S. Schultz. The End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Impact in Studies and Personal Essays by Service Members and Veterans. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2012.
Hughes, Matthew. British Ways of Counter-Insurgency: A Historical Perspective. London: Routledge, 2013.
Hutchings, Kimberly. "Gendered Humanitarianism: Reconsidering the Ethics of War." In Experiencing War, edited by Christine Sylvester, 28-41. London: Routledge, 2010.
Hyam, Ronald. Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization 1918-1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Iatrides, John O., and Linda Wrigley. Greece at the Crossroads: The Civil War and its Legacy. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Ilic, Melanie. The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Ilič, Melanie, Susan E. Reid, and Lynne Attwood. Women in the Khrushchev Era In Women in the Khrushchev Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Illiano, Roberto, and Massimiliano Sala. Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009.
Immerman, Richard H., and Petra Goedde. The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Inayatullah, Naeem, and Robin Riley. Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Inglis, K.S. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Iriye, Akira. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
Iriye, Akira. "Historicizing the Cold War." In The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Richard H. Immermann and Petra Goedde, 15-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Irving, Sarah. Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation. London: Pluto Press, 2012.
Irwin, Julia F. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Jackson, Maurice, and Jacqueline Bacon. African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Jarausch, Konrad. Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Jarausch, Konrad H. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Jarausch, Konrad H., Christian F. Ostermann, and Andreas Etges. The Cold War: Historiography, Memory, Representation. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
Jauffret, Jean-Charles. Des hommes et des femmes en guerre d’Algérie. Paris: Autrement, 2003.
Jeffords, Susan. The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Jiménez, Iván Molina, and David Díaz Arias. El Verdadero Anticomunismo: Política, Género y Guerra Fría en Costa Rica (1948-1973). San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 2017.
Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Jones, Adam. Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity. London: Zed Books, 2004.
Jones, Adam. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. London: Routledge, 2006.
Jones, Ellen. Red Army and Society: A Sociology of the Soviet Military. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Joseph, Suad. Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East. Syracuse, U.S.A.: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
Kanogo, Tabitha. "Kikuyu Women and the Politics of Protest: Mau Mau." In Images of Women in Peace and War: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives, edited by Sharon Ardener Macdonald, Holden, Pat and Shirley Ardener, 87-102. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Kassimeris, George. The Barbarization of Warfare. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Katz, Katarina. Gender, Work, and Wages in the Soviet Union: A Legacy of Discrimination. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Katz, Sheila H. Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2003.
Kaufman, Joyce P., and Kristen P. Williams. Women at War, Women Building Peace: Challenging Gender Norms. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2013.
Kay, Rebecca. Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Kelley, Caroline E. Women Writing War: The Life-Writing of the Algerian Moudjahidate. Oxford: Peter Lang , 2020.

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