Selected Readings on the Algerian War
Introductory Readings
For a general introduction into the research of gender and war, see the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). A general overview of the development of the research on gender and war can be found in its “Introduction: Gender and the History of War” by Karen Hagemann.
Part IV of the Handbook entitled “From the Global Cold War to the Conflicts of the Post–Cold War Era” includes several chapters dealing with gender and the Global Cold War. Chapter 26, “War and Gender: From the Global Cold War to the Conflicts of the Post–Cold War Era—an Overview” by Karen Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose offers a good introduction.
Further recommended readings from this chapter can be found in:
- the select bibliography of the chapter
- the extensive bibliography of the chapter
See also the handbook chapter:
- Branche, Raphaëlle. “Gender, the Wars of Decolonization and the Decline of Empires after 1945.” In Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, ed. by Karen Hagemann et al. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 677-97.
Many more titles you will find in GWonline. For our suggestions go here:
- Book Chapters and Journal Articles
- General Literature
- Literature on Gender, War & Revolution
- Methodological Introductions
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
- Branche, Raphaëlle. “Sexual Violence in the Algerian War.” In Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century, ed. by Dagmar Herzog, 247–60. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Cohen, William B. “The Algerian War, the French State and Official Memory.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 28, no. 2 (2002): 219–39
- Ighilahriz, Louisette “Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities: Women Veterans of the ‘Battle of Algiers’.” French History & Civilization 2 (2009): 153–68.
- Turshen, Meredeth. “Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims?” Social Research 69, no. 3 (2002): 889–911.
- Zack, Lizabeth, “Who Fought the Algerian War? Political Identity and Conflict in French-Ruled Algeria.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16, no. 1 (2002): 55–97
General Literature
- Evans, Martin. Algeria: France's Undeclared War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012:
- Evans, Martin. The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954–1962). Oxford: Berg, 1997.
- McCormack, Jo. Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War (1954–1962). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
- Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Literature on Gender, War & Revolution
- Kelley, Caroline E. Women Writing War: The Life-Writing of the Algerian “moudjahidate”. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020.
- Lyons, Amelia H. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian Families and the French Welfare State During Decolonization. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013.
- MacMaster, Neil. Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the “Emancipation” of Muslim Women, 1954–62. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
- Mortimer, Mildred P. Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.
- Vince, Natalya. Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954–2012. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.
Methodological Introductions
Women’s and Gender History
- Rose, Sonya O. What is Gender History? Cambridge: Polity Press 2010.
Military History
- Morillo, Stephen, and Michael F. Pavkovic. What is Military History? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Film History
- Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
War in Film
- Chapman, James. War and Film. London: Reaktion, 2008.
Film Analysis
- Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (4th ed., completely rev. and expanded).