Secondary Literature on the Age of First World War

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:

  • First World War (1914–18)
  • Russian Civil War (1917–22)
  • Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919–23)

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Böck, Christina, and Sybille Krafft. Zwischen den Fronten: Münchner Frauen in Krieg und Frieden, 1900-1950. München: Buchendorfer Verlag, 1995.
Boemeke, Manfred, Roger Chickering, and Stig Förster. Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Boittin, Jennifer. Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Bond, Brian. War and Society in Europe, 1870–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
Bösling, Carl-Heinrich, Ursula Führer, Claudia Glunz, and Thomas F. Schneider. Männer. Frauen. Krieg. Krieg und Frieden-eine Frage des Geschlechts?. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015.
Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini's Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Bourke, Joanna. Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Boyce, Robert. The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Branche, Raphaëlle, and Fabrice Virgili. Rape in Wartime. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. London: Pandora Press, 1987.
Braybon, Gail. Women Workers in the First World War: The British Experience. London: Routledge, 1981.
Bréchemier, Dominique, and Nicole Laval-Turpin. Les femmes de l’Entre-deux-guerres: Quels chemins vers la notoriété?. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.
Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brian, Kathleen M., and James W. Trent, Jr. Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Bridenthal, Renate, Susan Mosher Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner. Becoming Visible: Women in European History. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Bristow, Nancy. Making Men Modern: Social Engineering During the Great War. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Bristow, Nancy K. Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great War. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Broad, Graham. One in a Thousand: The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps. North York: Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Bröckling, Ulrich. Disziplin: Soziologie und Geschichte militärischer Gehorsamsproduktion. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1997.
Brosman, Catharine Savage. Visions of War in France: Fiction, Art, Ideology. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
Brovkin, Vladimir N. Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Brown, Nikki. Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Brown, Carrie. Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Brown, Frederick. The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Brüstle, Christa, Guido Heldt, and Eckhard Weber. Von Grenzen und Ländern, Zentren und Rändern: Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Verschiebungen in der musikalischen Geographie Europas. Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2006.
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, and Ruth Stanley. Gender in Transitional Justice. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Bucur-Deckard, Maria. Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Budreau, Lisa M. Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Burg, B. R. Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, and Margaret Tims. Pioneers for Peace: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965. London: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section, 1980.
Butterfield, Jo, and Elizabeth Heineman. "The Gendered Nexus between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi R. Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes and Nahla Valji, 62-74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Byers, Andrew. The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Byles, Joan Montgomery. War, Women, and Poetry, 1914-1945: British and German Writers and Activists. Newark; London: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.

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