Minerva Bibliographies: General Works and Collections

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Most Recommended:

  • Addis, Elisabetta, Valeria E. Russo, and Lorena Sebesta, Eds.
    Women Soldiers: Images and Realities.
    New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
  • Goldman, Nancy Loring, Ed.
    Female Soldiers – Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
    Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982
  • International History Review issue devoted to “Twentieth-Century Women in Wartime.”
    (February 1997)
  • Saywell, Shelley
    Women in War
    Markham, Ont: Viking, 1985

 

  • Segal, Mady Wechsler
    “Women in the Armed Forces.”
    Women and the Use of Military Force
    . Eds. Howes, Ruth and Michael Stevenson
    Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. 81-93

 

  • Stark, Suzanne J.
    Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996

 

Additional:

  • Berkin, Carol R. and Clara M. Lovett, Eds.
    Women, War and Revolution
    New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980

 

  • Bucher, Greta
    “Women in World War II.”
    World War II in Europe, Africa and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research
    Ed. Lee, Lloyd E.
    Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997

 

  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Seafaring Women
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982

 

  • Dever, John P. and Maria C. Dever
    Women and the Military: Over 100 Notable Contributors, Historic to Contemporary
    Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995.

 

  • Fischer, Gayle V.
    Journal of Women’s History Guide to
     Periodical Literature
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992

 

  • Fraser, Antonia
    The Warrior Queens
    New York: Knopf, 1989

 

  • Gribble, Francis
    Women in War
    New York: Dutton, 1917

 

  • Howes, Ruth and Michael Stevenson, Eds.
    Women and the Use of Military Force
    Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993

 

  • Jones, David E. Women Warriors: A History.
    Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1997.

 

  • Laffin, John. Women in Battle.
    New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1968

 

  • Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener
    Images of Women in Peace and War
    London: Macmillan, 1987
  • Newark, Tim
    Women Warlords
    London: Blandford/Cassell Artillery House, 1989
  • Skaine, Rosemarie
    Power and Gender:
     Issues in Sexual Dominance and Harassment
    McFarland, 1996
  • Stanley, Sandra Carson and Mady Wechsler Segal
    “Military Women in NATO: an update.”
    Armed Forces & Society 14.4 (1988): 559-585
  • Thomas, Patricia J.
    “Women in the Military; American and the British Commonwealth.”
    Armed Forces & Society 4.4 (1978): 623-645
  • Wheelwright, Julie
    Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
    London: Pandora, 1989

Sociobiology, Origins of Aggression

  • Ehrenreich, Barbara
    Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
    New York: Metropolitan Books, 1997
  • Hunter, Anne E., Ed.
    On Peace, War, and Gender: A Challenge to Genetic Explanations
    New York: The Feminist Press, 1991
     
  • Robarchek, Clayton A. and Carole J. Robarchek
    “Cultures of War and Peace: A Comparative Study of Waorani and Semai.”
    Aggression and Peacefulness in Humans and Other Primates.
    Eds. Silverberg, James and J. Patrick Gray
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 189-213
     
  • Wilson, Edward
    Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975

 

Theory, Language, Masculinity/Femininity and War

Most Recommended:

  • Cohn, Carol
    “’Clean Bombs’ and Clean Language.”
    Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory
    Eds. Elshtain, Jean and S. Tobias
    Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990
  • Colleton, Claire
     “Gender-Charged Munitions: The Language of World War I Munitions Reports.”
    Women’s Studies International Forum
     11.2 (1988): 109-116
     
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    “Gender as Stigma: Probing Some Sensitive Issues.”
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military
     6.1 (1988): 29-43
  • Mosse, George L.
    Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
    New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990
  • Segal, Mady Wechsler
    “Women’s Military Roles Cross-Nationally: Past, Present, and Future.”
    Gender & Society
     9.6 (1995): 757-775
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    “The Protected, the Protector, the Defender.”
    Women’s Studies International Forum
     5.3/4 (1982): 367-376

 

Additional:

  • Cohn, Carol
    “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.”
    Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
     12.4 (1987): 687-718
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke
    “Women as Mirror and Other: Toward a Theory of Women, War and Feminism.”
    Humanities in Society
     5.2 (1982): 29-44
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke
    Women and War
    New York: Basic Books, 1987
     
  • Elshtain, Jean Bethke and Sheila Tobias, Eds.
    Women, Militarism and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory
    Rowman & Littlefield, 1990
  • Fussell, Paul
    The Great War and modern memory
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1975
  • Fussell, Paul
    Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
    Oxford UP, 1989
  • Honey, Maureen
    Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, Propaganda during World War II
    Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984

  • Kates, Gary
    Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman

    BasicBooks, 1995
  • Kates, Gary
    “The transgendered world of the Chevalier/Chevaliere d’ Eon.”
    The Journal of Modern History
     67.3 (1995): 558(37)
  • Lentin, Ronit, Ed.
    Gender and Catastrophe
    New York: Zed Books, 1997
  • Lynn, John A.
    “The Embattled Future of Academic Military History.”
    Journal of Military History
     61. (1997): 777-789
  • Skaine, Rosemarie
    Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat
    McFarland, 1998
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    “Women and Men’s Wars.”
    Women’s Studies International Forum
     5.3/4 (1982)
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    “Women, Men and Military Science: Is Protection Necessarily a Racket?”
    Women, Power, and Policy: Toward the Year 2000
    . Ed. Boneparth, E.
    NY: Pergamon, 1982

  • Tavris, Carol
    The Mismeasure of Woman: why women are not the better sex, the inferior , or the opposite sex
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.