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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Wiesinger, Barbara N. "Der Krieg der Partisaninnen. Bewaffneter Widerstand von Frauen in Jugoslawien (1941-1945)." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 233-256. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Wiesinger, Barbara N. "Gendered Resistance: Women Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945." In Women and Men at War: A Gender Perspective on World War II and Its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Maren Röger and Ruth Leiserowitz, 219-240. Osnabrück, Germany: Fibre, 2012.
Wiesinger, Barbara N. Partisaninnen: Widerstand in Jugoslawien, 1941–1945. Vienna: Böhlau, 2008.
Wieviorka, Olivier. Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Wieviorka, Olivier. The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Wildenthal, Lora. German Women for Empire, 1884-1945. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Willbanks, James H. America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Williams, Mari. A Forgotten Army: The Female Munitions Workers of South Wales, 1939-1945. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002.
Williams, Kathleen Broome. Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
Williamson, Gordon. World War II German Women's Auxiliary Services. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Willson, Perry. Gender, Family and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy, 1860-1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Willson, Perry R. The Clockwork Factory: Women and Work in Fascist Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Willson, Perry R. Women in Twentieth-Century Italy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Wilson, Sandra, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt, and Dean Aszkielowicz. Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. London: Tavistock, 1980.
Winchell, Meghan. Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Winchell, Meghan K. "Women and World War in Comparative Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History, edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, 595-616. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Wingfield, Nancy M., and Maria Bucur-Deckard. Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Winkler, Dörte. Frauenarbeit im "Dritten Reich". Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1977.
Winkler, Allan. The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978.
Withuis, Jolande. "Die verlorene Unschuld des Gedächtnisses: Soziale Amnesie in Holland und sexuelle Gewalt im Zweiten Weltkrieg." In Gedächtnis und Geschlecht: Deutungsmuster in Darstellungen des nationalsozialistischen Genozids, edited by Insa Eschebach, Sigrid Jacobeit and Silke Wenk, 77-96. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2002.
Wolfgram, Mark A. Antigone's Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2018.
Wolfgram, Mark. Getting History Right: East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2003.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Women, Institute for the Ad. Our Women in Uniform: Honouring Aboriginal Women Veterans of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, 2003.
Wong, K. Scott. "From Pariah to Paragon: Shifting Images of Chinese Americans during World War II." In Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu, 153-172. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.
Worobec, Christine D., Barbara Evans Clements, and Barbara Alpern Engel. Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1976.
Yoshimi, Yoshiaki. Comfort women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Zahra, Tara. The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Zalfen, Sarah, and Sven Oliver Müller. Besatzungsmacht Musik: Zur Musik- und Emotionsgeschichte im Zeitalter der Weltkriege (1914-1949). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014.
Zegenhagen, Evelyn. "Schneidige deutsche Mädel": Fliegerinnen zwischen 1918 und 1945. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007.
Zehfuss, Maja. Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Zeiler, Thomas W. A Companion to World War II. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Zeiler, Thomas W. Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zelče, Vita. "Latvian Women after World War II." In Women and Men at War: A Gender Perspective on World War II and Its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Maren Röger and Ruth Leiserowitz, 281-306. Osnabrück, Germany: Fibre, 2012.

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