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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Vining, Margaret. "Women Join the Armed Forces: The Transformation of Women's Military Work in World War II and After (1939-1947)." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 233-289. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Vinogradova, Luba. Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women who Fought Hitler's Aces. New York: MacLehose Press, 2018.
Virgili, Fabrice. La France "virile": Des femmes tondues à la libération. Paris: Payot, 2000.
Virgili, Fabrice. Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 2002.
Vlossak, Elizabeth. Marianne or Germania? Nationalizing Women in Alsace, 1870-1946. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
von Klimó, Árpád. Remembering Cold Days: The 1942 Massacre of Novi Sad, Hungarian Politics, & Society, 1942-1989 In Pitt series in Russian and East European studies. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Vuic, Kara D. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military In Routeledge Histories. New York; London: Routledge, 2018.
Wagner, Lilya. Women War Correspondents of World War II. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-38: Complicating the Picture. 2nd ed. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
Wake, Roy. The Nightingale Training School, 1860-1996. London: Haggerston Press, 1998.
Walke, Anika. Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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.
Warring, Anette. "Intimate and Sexual Relations." In Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe, edited by Robert Warring Gildea and Olivier Wieviorka, 88-128. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 2006.
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.
Waxman, Zoë. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Weaks-Baxter, Mary, Christine Bruun, and Catherine Forslund. We are a College at War: Women Working for Victory in World War II. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
Webster, Wendy. Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Weigand, Cindy J. Texas Women in World War II. Lanham, MD: Republic of Texas Press, 2003.
Weinberg, Gerhard. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Weiner, Gaby. "Layers of Concealment: Post-War Cultures of Surveillance and Secrecy in the Lives of Jewish Refugees, as Exemplified by the Case of Steffi Dinger." In Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts, edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, 47-58. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2017.
Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Weitz, Eric D. Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Weitz, Margaret Collins. Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945. New York: Wiley, 1995.
Welch, David, and Jo Fox. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Welch, David. Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001.
Welch, David. Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013.
Westbrook, Robert B. "Fighting for the American Family: Private Interests and Political Obligation in World War II." In The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History, edited by TJ Jackson Lears and Richard Wightman Fox, 195-221. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Wette, Wolfram. Der Krieg des kleinen Mannes: Eine Militärgeschichte von unten. München: Piper, 1992.
Wette, Wolfram. The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Whitaker, Elizabeth Dixon. Measuring Mamma's Milk: Fascism and the Medicalization of Maternity in Italy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Wiborg, Susanne, and Jan Peter Wiborg. Glaube, Führer, Hoffnung: Der Untergang der Clara S.. München: Verlag Antje Kunstmann, 2015.
Wierling, Dorothee. "Generations as Narrative Communities: Some Private Sources of Public Memory in Postwar Germany." In Histories of the Aftermath: the Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, edited by Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, 102-120. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.

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