Secondary Literature on the Cold War and Wars of Decolonization

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in 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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Campbell, D'Ann. "Inside or Outside? Women's Role in American Military History." In Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?, edited by Lois Duke Whitaker, 323-339. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Campillo, María Vidaurreta. La Guerra y la Condición Femenina en la Sociedad Industrial: el Caso de Francia. Madrid: Dirección General de la Juventud y Promoción Sociocultural, 1981.
Campos, Ângela. An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Carden-Coyne, Ana. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Castillo, Greg. "The American 'Fat Kitchen' in Europe: Postwar Domestic Modernity and Marshall Plan Strategies of Enchantment." In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, 33-67. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Castledine, Jacqueline. Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom. University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Chadwick, Justin, William Nicholson, and Nelson Mandela. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. United Kingdom, South Africa : 20th Century Fox, United International Pictures, 2013.
Chapman, Herrick. France's Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Chapman, James. War and Film. London: Reaktion, 2008.
Charrad, Mounira M. States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Chevillot, Frédérique, and Anna Norris. Des femmes écrivent la guerre. Paris: Éditions Complicités, 2007.
Chiaroni, Keren. Resistance Heroism and the End of Empire: The Life and Times of Madeleine Riffaud. London: Taylor and Francis Group, 2017.
Chickering, Roger, Dennis Showalter, and Hans van de Ven. The Cambridge History of War: War and the Modern World. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chomsky, Noam. 9-11: Was There an Alternative?. 48th ed. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
Clark, Suzanne. Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Clark, Fiona, and Caroline O. N. Moser. Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Clayton, Anthony. France, Soldiers, and Africa. London: Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1988.
Cohn, Carol. "Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War." In Gendering War Talk, edited by Miriam G. Cooke and Angela Woollacott, 227-248. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Cohn, Carol. Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Gender and French Identity After the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness. United States: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Confino, Alon, and Peter Fritzsche. The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society In The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society. Urbana Chmpaign: University of Illinois Press , 2002.
Connelly, Mark, and David Welch. War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Cooke, Miriam, and Angela Woollacott. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Cooke, Miriam. Women and the War Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Cooper, Frederick. Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Cooper, Nicola. France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. Oxford: Berg, 2001.
Cooper, Dana, and Claire Phelan. Motherhood and War: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Corber, Robert J. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Cornaton, Michel. Les camps de regroupement de la guerre d'Algérie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.
Coronado, Juan David. "I'm Not Gonna Die in this Damn Place:" Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War. East Lansing, MI, USA: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Martel, André. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1940 à nos jours, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 4. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Cowan, Benjamin A. Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Cowley, Robert. The Cold War: A Military History (Cowley 2005). New York: Random House, 2005.
Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: The Modern Library, 2010.

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