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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Damousi, Joy, and Marilyn Lake. Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Danforth, Loring M., and Riki van Boeschoten. Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Davy, Jennifer, Karen Hagemann, and Ute Kätzel. Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
de Volo, Lorraine Bayard. Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Dean, Robert D. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Decker, Alicia Catharine. In Idi Amin's Shadow : Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda. Athens, USA: Ohio University Press, 2014.
Deltombe, Thomas Domergue, Jacob Tatsitsa, and Manuel Domergue. Kamerun!: Une guerre cachée aux origines de la Françafrique (1948-1971). Paris: La Découverte, 2011.
Di Cintio, Marcello. Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2018.
Diehl, James. The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans after the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Dippel, John Van Houten. War and Sex: A Brief History of Men's Urge for Battle. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2010.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Dower, John W. Culturas de Guerra: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 11 de Septiembre, Iraq. Barcelona, Spain: Pasado & Presente, 2010.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1870 à nos jours. Vol. 2. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
Dumančić, Marko. "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Histories of Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War." In Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck, 1-11. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.
Dunn, Seamus, and T.G. Fraser. Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge, 1996.
Durham, Martin. Women and Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Eager, Paige Whaley. From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
Edmondson, Linda Harriet. Gender in Russian History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
M. Edwards, Kathryn. Contesting Indochina: French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016.
Eifler, Christine, and Ruth Seifert. Soziale Konstruktionen: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnis. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999.
Eisner, Rivka Syd. Performing Remembering: Women's Memories of War in Vietnam. New York: Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, and Sheila Tobias. Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
Engel, Barbara Alpern. "On the Eve: Gender, Historiography and the Prelude to Revolution." In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Melanie Ilic, 55-68. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Enloe, Cynthia H. The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Ennaji, Moha, and Fatima Sadiqi. Gender and Violence in the Middle East. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Estes, Steve. Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Estes, Steve. "Man the Guns: Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 185-203. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Evangelista, Matthew. Gender, Nationalism and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Evans, Martin. Algeria: France's Undeclared War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1965.

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