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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Usborne, Cornelie. "'Pregnancy Is the Woman’s Active Service': Pronatalism in Germany during the First World War." In The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914–1918, edited by Wall, Richard and Jay Winter, 389-416. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Usborne, Cornelie. "Body Biological to Body Politic: Women’s Demands for Reproductive Self-Determination in World War I and Early Weimar Germany." In Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Geoff Eley and Jan Palmowski, 129-145. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1997.
Vasilev, Maksim Viktorovic. Zhenskie batal’ony v Pervoi mirovoi voine. Pskov, Russia: OOO "Gimenei", 2014.
Vellacott, Jo. "Feminist Consciousness and the First World War." In Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical and Practical Perspectives, edited by Ruth Roach Pierson, 114-136. London: Croom Helm, 1987.
Véray, Laurent. Avènement d'une culture visuelle de guerre : le cinéma en France de 1914 à 1928. Paris: Nouvelles éditions Place, 2019.
Verhey, Jeffrey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Vlossak, Elizabeth. Marianne or Germania? Nationalizing Women in Alsace, 1870-1946. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Vogel, Jacob. "Samariter und Schwestern: Geschlechterbilder und -beziehungen im "Deutschen Roten Kreuz" vor dem ersten Weltkrieg." In Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, edited by Karen Hagemann and Ralf Pröve, 322-344. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Vogel, Jakob. "Stramme Gardisten, temperamentvolle Tirailleurs und anmutige Damen: Geschlechterbilder im deutschen und französischen Kult der "Nation in Waffen"." In Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Ute Frevert, 245-262. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1997.
Von Hammerstein, Katharina, Barbara Kosta, and Julie Shoults. Women Writing War: From German Colonialism through World War I In Interdisciplinary German cultural studies. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
Von Kurowsky, Agnes, Henry Serrano Villard, and James Nagel. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Vuic, Kara D. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military In Routeledge Histories. New York; London: Routledge, 2018.
Wake, Roy. The Nightingale Training School, 1860-1996. London: Haggerston Press, 1998.
Wall, Richard, and Jay M. Winter. The Upheaval of War: Family, Work, and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Walsh, Michael J. K., and Andrekos Varnava. The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society In Routledge studies in First World War history. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017.
Ward, Margaret. Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
Warren, Allen. "Popular Manliness: Baden Powell, Scouting and the Development of Manly Character." In Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940, edited by James Mangan and James Walvin, 199-219. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen. Beauty or Beast? The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Watenpaugh, Keith David. Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
Waters, Elizabeth. "Heroism in the Frame: Gender‚ Nationality and Propaganda in Tashkent and Moscow‚ 1924-1945." In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Melanie Ilic, 199-216. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Watkins, Glenn. Proof through the Night: Music and the Great War. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Watson, Janet S. K. Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I - The People's War. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
Wawro, Geoffrey. Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914. London: Routledge, 2005.
Weindling, Paul. International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Weiss, Elaine F. Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2008.
Weitz, Eric D. Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Weitz, Eric D. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Welch, David. Germany, Propaganda, and Total War, 1914-1918: The Sins of Omission. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
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.
Wette, Wolfram. Der Krieg des kleinen Mannes: Eine Militärgeschichte von unten. München: Piper, 1992.
Whalen, Robert. Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War, 1914-1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Whitaker, Elizabeth Dixon. Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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