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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Moghadam, Valentine M. Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies. London: Zed Books, 1994.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. A Few Good Women: America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Monnickendam, Andrew, and Aránzazu Usandizaga. Dressing Up For War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Moor, Jaap de. "The Recruitment of Indonesian Soldiers for the Dutch Colonial Army, c. 1700–1950." In Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700-1964, edited by David Killingray and David Omissi, 53-69. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Morag, Raya. Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War. Brussels, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.
Moran, Daniel, and Arthur Waldron. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Mortimer, Mildred P. Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Most, Andrea. Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Moyn, Samuel. Human Rights and the Uses of History. London: Verso, 2014.
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.
Münkler, Herfried. The New Wars. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005.
Mushikiwabo, Louise, and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Naimark, Norman, and Leonid Gibianskii. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944–1949. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Nasser, Riad M. Recovered Histories and Contested Identities: Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
Naumann, Klaus. Nachkrieg in Deutschland. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001.
Neiberg, Michael S. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Neuhaus, Susan J., and Sharon Mascall-Dare. Not for Glory: A Centenary of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and Its Allies. Salisburg, Australia: Boolarong Press, 2014.
Nhongo-Simbanegavi, Josephine. For Better or Worse?: Women and ZANLA in Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle. Avondale, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press, 2000.
Nieden, Susanne zur. "Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 297-310. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Niehuss, Merith. Familie, Frau und Gesellschaft: Studien zur Strukturgeschichte der Familie in Westdeutschland 1945-1960. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001.
Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna. Social Change, Gender, and Violence: Post-Communist and War Affected Societies. London: Dordrecht , 2011.
Ninkovich, Frank A. The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938-1950. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Nolan, Mary. "Consuming America, Producing Gender." In The American Century in Europe, edited by Laurence R. Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, 243-261. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Noonan, Norma C., and Carol Nechemias. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Norman, Elizabeth. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Ocobock, Paul. An Uncertain age: the Politics of Manhood in Kenya. Athens, OH: Ohio Univeristy Press, 2017.
Odhiambo, E. S. Atieno, and John Lonsdale. Mau Mau & Nationhood: Arms, Authority & Narration. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann. Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. "Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective." In The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe, edited by Sylvia Paletscheck and Sylvia Schraut, 7-30. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2008.
Palmié, Stephan, and Francisco A. Scarano. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Parenti, Michael. To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia. London: Verso, 2000.
Paret, Peter, Beth Irwin Lewis, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Pearlman, Wendy. Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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