Secondary Literature on the Post-Cold War Period

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:

  • Wars in former Yugoslavia (1991–99)
  • U.S. Wars in the Middle East (1990–)
  • Wars of Globalization
  • UN Peacekeeping / New Humanitarianism

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Stiehm, Judith Hicks. "Women, Peacekeeping and Peacemaking: Gender Balance and Mainstreaming." In Women and International Peacekeeping, edited by Louise Olsson and Torunn L. Tryggestad, 39-48. London: Frank Cass, 2001.
Stiglmayer, Alexandra. Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Stone, Dan. The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Strachan, Hew, and Sibylle Scheipers. The Changing Character of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Tanaka, Toshiyuki, and Marilyn Blatt Young. Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History. New York: New Press, 2009.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Ternon, Yves. L'Etat criminel: Les génocides au XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 1995.
Thorpe, Helen. Soldier Girls: The Battles of three Women at Home and at War. New York: Scribner, 2014.
Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Vavrus, Mary Douglas. Post-Feminist War: Women and the Media-Military-Industrial Complex In War culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Villa-Vicencio, Charles, Erik Doxtader, and Ebrahim Moosa. The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth?. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015.
Walzer, Michael. Arguing about War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Ward, Caterina E. Arrabal. Wartime Sexual Violence at the International Level: A Legal Perspective In International humanitarian law series : IHUL. - Leiden : Nijhoff, 1999-. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2018.
Weiss, Thomas G., and Cindy Collins. Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention: World Politics and the Dilemmas of Help. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Weiss, Thomas G., David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate, and Kelly–Kate Pease. The United Nations and Changing World Politics. 8th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2017.
Weissman, Fabrice. In the Shadow of "Just Wars": Violence, Politics, and Humanitarian Action. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Welch, David, and Jo Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Welch, David. Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013.
Whitworth, Sandra. Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004.
Willbanks, James H. America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Winkler, Philippa. Confronting the International Patriarchy: Iran, Iraq and the United States of America. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Winkler, Gary S. Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib, and the Photographs that Shocked the World. Keyser, WV: Bad Apple Books, 2009.
Wise, Jr., James E., and Scott Baron. Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Conflicts. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Yavuz, M. Hakan, and Peter Sluglett. War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2011.
Young, Peter, and Peter Jesser. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Žarkov, Dubravka. "Exposures and Invisibilities: Media, Masculinities and the Narratives of War in an Intersectional Perspective." In Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies, edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Her Vivar and Linda Supik, 105-120. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011.
Žarkov, Dubravka. Gender, Violent Conflict, and Development. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2008.
Žarkov, Dubravka. "The Body of the Other Man: Sexual Violence and the Construction of Masculinity, Sexuality and Ethnicity in Croatian Media." In Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence, edited by Caroline O. N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark, 69-82. London: Zed Books, 2001.
Žarkov, Dubravka. The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

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