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.

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Shulman, Holly Cowan. The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Siedentopf, Monika. Absprung über Feindesland: Agentinnen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006.
Siedentopf, Monika. Unternehmen Seelöwe: Widerstand im deutschen Geheimdienst. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014.
Simmons, Cynthia, and Nina Perlina. Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose In Pitt series in Russian and East European studies; Variation: Series in Russian and East European studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Singh, Gajendra. The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Sivan, Emmanuel, and Jay M. Winter. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sjoberg, Laura. Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Sjoberg, Laura, and Caron E. Gentry. Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. London: Zed Books, 2007.
Sjoberg, Laura. Women as Wartime Rapists: Beyond Sensation and Stereotyping. New York: New York University Press, 2017.
Skaine, Rosemarie. Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook In Contemporary world issues; Variation: Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Slaughter, Jane. Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943-1945. Denver, CO: Arden Press, 1997.
Slezkine, Yuri, and Sheila Fitzpatrick. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the Age of Internationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Sluga, Glenda, and Patricia Clavin. Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Sluga, Glenda. "National Sovereignty and Female Equality: Gender, Peacemaking, and the New World Orders of 1919 and 1945." In Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung, edited by Karen Hagemann, Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, 166-183. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
Smedley, Agnes, Jan MacKinnon, and Steve MacKinnon. Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1976.
Smith, Chris. "'Bright Chaps for Hush-Hush Jobs': Masculinity, Class and Civilians in Uniform at Bletchley Park." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 145-167. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
G. Smith, Stuart. A Life in Code: Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
Smith, Angela. Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations. Baltimore, MD: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Smith, Kathleen. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
Smith, Angela K., and Sandra Barkhof. War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Soderbergh, Peter. Women Marines: The World War II Era. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.
Soh, Chunghee Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Soloway, Richard A. Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Somerville, Christopher. Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War. London: Cassell, 2005.
Sommer, Robert. "Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps." In Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century, edited by Dagmar Herzog, 168-196. Basingstoke, UK ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Son, Elisabeth. Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Spackman, Barbara. Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Sparrow, John C. History of Personnel Demobilization in the United States Army. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1952.
Speck, Catherine. Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Spencer, Emily. Lipstick and High Heels: War, Gender, and Popular Culture. Kingston, Canada: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2007.
Stallman, David A. Women in the Wild Blue: Target-Towing WASP at Camp Davis. Sugarcreek, OH: Carlisle Printing of Walnut Creek, 2006.
Stangneth, Bettina. Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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