Secondary Literature on the Age of the Second 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:

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Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Reporting under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists In Women of action; Variation: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014.
Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
Honey, Maureen. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
Horne, John. "Defeat and Memory in Modern History." In Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era, edited by Jenny Macleod, 11-29. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Horten, Gerd. Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Horwitz, Sara R. "Women in Holocaust Literature: Engendering Trauma Memory." In Women in the Holocaust, edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman, 364-378. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Houghton, Frances. "Becoming 'A Man' During the Battle of Britain: Combat, Masculinity and Rites of Passage in the Memoirs of 'the Few'." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 97-117. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Houghton, Frances. The Veterans' Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War In Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Huener, Jonathan, and Francis R. Nicosia. The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.
Huffman, J. Ford, and Tammy S. Schultz. The End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Impact in Studies and Personal Essays by Service Members and Veterans. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2012.
Iacovetta, Franca, Roberto Perin, and Angelo Principe. Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Ibson, John. The Mourning After: Loss and Longing Among Midcentury American Men. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Ilic, Melanie. Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From 'Protection' to 'Equality'. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
Illiano, Roberto, and Massimiliano Sala. Music and Dictatorship in Europe and Latin America. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009.
Imperial War Museums. Imperial War Museums. London.
Inglis, K.S. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Irwin, Julia F. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Iturbe, Dolores. La Mujer en la Lucha Social y en la Guerra Civil de España. Mexico: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1974.
Jackson, Angela. British Women and the Spanish Civil War. London: Routledge, 2002.
Jackson, Paul. One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military during World War II. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
Jackson, Ashley. The British Empire and the Second World War. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006.
Jackson, Kathi. They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
Jackson-Schebetta, Lisa. Traveler, There is no Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017.
Jarausch, Konrad. Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Jarausch, Konrad H. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Jarvis, Christina S. The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.
Jaun, Rudolf. "Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht: Europäische Entwicklungslinien und schweizerische Besonderheiten." In Armee, Staat und Geschlecht: Die Schweiz im internationalen Vergleich 1918–1945, edited by Christof Dejung and Regula Stämpfli, 83-97. Zürich: Chronos, 2003.
Jellison, Katherine. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Jerome, Roy. Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Jolie, Angelina. Unbroken. United States: Universal Pictures, 2014.
Jolluck, Katherine. Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Jolluck, Katherine R. "The Nation’s Pain and Women’s Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence." In Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, edited by Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur-Deckard, 193-219. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Jones, Helen. British Civilians in the Front Line: Air Raids, Productivity and Wartime Culture, 1939-45. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.
Jones, Adam. Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity. London: Zed Books, 2004.

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