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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.