Minerva Bibliographies: United States

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Most recommended:

  • Binkin, Martin
    Who Will Fight the Next War? The Changing Face of the American Military
    Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1993
  • Binkin, Martin and Shirley J. Bach
    Women and the Military
    Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1977
  • Binkin, Martin
    Who Will Fight the Next War?
    The Changing Face of the American Military
    Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1993
  • D’Amico, Francine and Laurie Weinstein, Eds.
    Gender Camouflage: Women and the U.S. Military.
    New York: New York University Press, 1999
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Women in Combat: The Revolutionary War Experience
    Armed Forces & Society 7.2 (1980): 209-226
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
  • Devilbiss, M. C.
    Women and Military Service
    Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1990
  • Devilbiss, M. C.
    Gender Integration and Unit Deployment: A Study of GI Jo
    Armed Forces & Society 11.4 (1985): 523-552
  • Douglas, Deborah G.
    United States Women in Aviation 1940-1985
    Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990
  • Francke, Linda Bird
    Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997
  • Friedl, Vicki L.
    Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: a research guide and annotated bibliography
    Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996
  • Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga
    A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War
    1999
  • Hacker, Barton
    Where Have All the Women Gone? The Pre-twentieth Century Sexual Division of Labor in Armies
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.1 (1985): 107-148
  • Herbert, Melissa
    Camouflage Isn’t Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military
    New York: New York University Press, 1998
  • Holm, Jeanne
    Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution Revised ed.
     Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1992
  • Jensen, Kimberly, Ed.
    Women, War and the Military from the American Revolution to the Post Cold-War Era.
    Garland, 1997
  • Leonard, Elizabeth D.
    All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies
    1999
  • Meyer, Leisa D.
    Creating G. I. Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
  • Middleton, Lee
    Hearts of Fire: Soldier Women of the Civil War. Vol. 1.
    Franklin, NC: Genealogy Publishing Services, 1993. 2 vols
  • Morden, Bettie J.
    The Women’s Army Corps, 1945-1978
    Washington, DC: GPO, 1990
  • Poulos, Paula Nassen, Ed.
    A Women’s War Too: U.S. Women in the Military in World War II
    Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996
  • Seeley, Charlotte Palmer, Ed.
    American Women and the US Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women
    Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
  • Segal, Mady Wechsler
    Women’s Military Roles Cross-Nationally: Past, Present, and Future
    Gender & Society
     9.6 (1995): 757-775
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    Arms and the Enlisted Woman
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the 
    U.S. Air Force Academy
    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks, Ed.
    It’s Our Military, Too!  Women and the 
    U.S. Military
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996
  • Stremlow, Colonel Mary V.
    A History of the Women Marines, 1946-1977
    Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, HQ USMC, 1986
  • Stremlow, Colonel Mary V.
    Free A Marine To Fight: Women Marines In World War II
    Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, HQ USMC, 1994
  • Treadwell, Mattie E.
    The Women’s Army Corps.
    Washington: Office of Chief of Military History, Dept of the Army, 1954
  • Weinstein, Laurie and Christie White, Eds.
    Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada
    Bergin & Garvey, 1997
  • Wekesser, Carol and Matt Polesetsky, Eds.
    Women in the Military Current Controversies
    San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1991
  • White, John Todd
    “The Truth about Molly Pitcher.” The American Revolution: Whose Revolution?
    Eds. Martin, James Kirby and Karen R. Stubaus. Huntington, NY: 1977. 99-105
  • Zimmerman, Jean
    Tailspin: Women at War in the Wake of Tailhook
    New York: Doubleday, 1995

Additional:

  • Women in Combat: Report to the President/ Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces
    Washington: Brasseyís, 1993
  • Women in the Military: Deployment in the Persian Gulf War
    July 1993., GAO/NSIAD-93-93
  • Akers, Regina T.
    Female Naval Reservists During World War II: a Historiographical Essay
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.2 (1990): 55-61
  • Allen, Ann
    The News Media and the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps: Protagonists for a Cause
    Military Affairs 50. (1986): 77-83
  • Allen, E. Ann
    The WAC Mission: The Testing Time from Korea to Vietnam
    Phd Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1986
  • Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett
    The Way of the WAVES: Women in the Navy
    Conway, AR: HAMBA, 1981
  • Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett
    Old WAVES Tales: Navy Women: Memories of World War II
    Conway, AR: HAMBA, 1982
  • Alsmeyer, Marie Bennett
    A Preliminary Survey of Literature about World War II Women in the Navy
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.4 (1983): 71-76
  • Ambrose, Stephen E.
    Sidesaddle Soldier: Libby Custer’s Partnership in Glory
    Timeline 3. (1986): 3-12
  • Attebury, Mary Ann
    Women and Their Wartime Roles
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.1 (1990): 11-28
  • Bellafaire, Judith A.
    The Women’s Army Corps: a Commemoration of World War II service

    CMH pub ; 72-15. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1993
  • Bertini, CPT Jessica and CPT Alison Weir
    We Didn’t Want to Stand Out
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Leadership in a Gender-Diverse Military: Women at the Nation’s Service Academies; The Twenty-Year Mark. Conference Proceedings 20-23 March 1997, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut) 15.3&4 (1997): 101-116

  • Blanton, De Anne
    Cathay Williams, Black Woman Soldier 1866-1868
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.3-4 (1992): 1-21
  • Blumenthal, Walter Hart
    Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution
    New York: Arno, 1952
  • Boldry, Jennifer, Wendy Wood, and Deborah A. Kashy
    Gender Stereotypes and the Evaluation of Men and Women in Military Training
    Journal of Social Issues 57.4 (2001): 689(17)
  • Booher, Alice
    American Military Women Prisoners of War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 11.1 (1993)
  • Boom, Kathleen M.
    Women in the A.A.F. The Army Air Forces in World War II.
    Eds. Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate
    Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1958. Vol. 7: 503-540
  • Braswell, Nancy S.
    One Woman’s View of the Air War College
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.4 (1983): 96-100
  • Breuer, William B
    War And American Women: Heroism, Deeds, And Controversy
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997
  • Brodie, Laura Fairchild
    Breaking out: VMI and the coming of women
    1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000
  • Brower, J. Michael
    The Mother of All Future Debates: Women in Combat
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 14.3&4 (1996): 1-10
  • Brower, J. Michael
    Army study undercuts misconceptions
    Pentagram 22 Mar 1996: 14
  • Brower, J. Michael
    New Army Study Undermines Old Taboo
    Armed Forces Journal International May 1996: 13
  • Brown, Sharon A.
    Recovering the History of Western Military Women
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 2.1 (1984): 83-97
  • Burgess, Lauren Cook, Ed.
    An Uncommon Soldier: the Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
    Pasadena, MD: Minerva, 1994
  • Burgoyne, Bruce E.
    Women with Hessian Military Units
    Brigade Dispatch XXVI.3 (1996): 2-10
  • Burgoyne, Bruce E.
    Women with the Hessian Auxiliaries during the American Revolutionary War, Part 1
    Brigade Dispatch XXVI.1 (1996): 2-8
  • Burgoyne, Bruce E.
    Women with the Hessian Auxiliaries during the American Revolutionary War, Part 2
    Brigade Dispatch XXVI.2 (1996): 19-23
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era.
    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    Women in Uniform: the World War II Experiment
    Military Affairs (1987): 137-139
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    The Regimented Women of World War II
    Women, Militarism and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory. Eds. Elshtain, Jean Bethke and Sheila Tobias. Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. 107-124
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    Servicewomen of World War II
    Armed Forces & Society 16.2 (1990): 251-270
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    Women in Combat: the World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union
    Journal of Military History 57.2 (1993): 301-323
  • Campbell, D’Ann
    Servicewomen and the Academies: The Football Cordon and Pep Rally As a Case Study of the Status of Female Cadets at the United States Military Academy
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 13.1 (1995)
  • Cassin-Scott, Jack
    Women At War 1939-1945
    1980
  • Chorak, Carolyn S.
    Marching to a different drummer: military women in American popular magazines, 1975-1985
    Master’s thesis. California State University (Northridge), 1986

  • Christides, Michelle A.
    Women Veterans of the Great War: Oral Histories
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.2 (1985): 103-127
  • Clausius, Gerhard P.
    The Little Soldier of the 95th: Albert D. J. Cashier
    Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 51.4 (1958): 380-387
  • Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber, Eds.
    Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Cohen, Daniel
    The Female Marine in an Era of Good Feelings: Cross Dressing and the ‘Genius’ of Nathaniel Covertly, Jr.
    Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 103. (1993): 359-394
  • Cohen, Daniel
    The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America’s Early Republic.
    Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997
  • Cole, Adelaide M.
    Anne Bailey: Woman of Courage
    Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 114. (1980): 322-325
  • Collier-Thomas, Dr. Bettye
    Recovering the Military History of Black Women
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.1 (1983): 76-80
  • Cometti, Elizabeth
    Women in the American Revolution
    New England Quarterly 20. (1947)
  • Cometti, Elizabeth
    Deborah Sampson: Notable American Women 1607-1950.
    Ed. James, Edward T. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1971. Vol. 3: 227-228
  • Cometti, Elizabeth
    Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley: Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary.
    Eds. James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James and Paul S. Boyer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. Vol. 2: 448-449
  • Conrey, Kristin
    Remembering the Forgotten: A Look at the Women POWS of World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Special Issue: Women Prisoners Of War) 16.3&4 (1998): 25-75
  • Cooke, Miriam
    Subverting the Gender and Military Paradigms
    It’s Our Military, Too!  Women and the U.S. Military. Ed. Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 235-269
  • Cornum, Rhonda
    She Went To War: The Rhonda Cornum Story
    Novato, CA: Presidio, 1992
  • Coryell, Janet
    Anna Ella Carroll and the Historians
    Civil War History 35. (1989): 120-37
  • Coryell, Janet L.
    Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
    Kent, OH: Kent State UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1990
  • Coulter, Ellis Merton
    Nancy Hart, Georgia Heroine of the Revolution: The Story of the Growth of a Tradition
    Georgia Historical Quarterly 39. (1955): 118-151
  • Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate, eds.
    The Army Air Forces in World War II. 7 vols. Vol. 7.
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958
  • Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer
    Trials and Triumph: Women of the American Civil War
    East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 1991

  • Hendrix, Scott N.
    In the Army: Women, Camp Followers and Gender Roles in the British Army in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1765
    A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military
    Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird. Longman, 2000. 33-48
  • Darrach, Henry
    Lydia Darragh, of the Revolution
    Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XXIII. (1899)
  • Davis, Curtis Carroll
    A ‘Gallantress’ Gets Her Due: The Earliest Published Notice of Deborah Sampson
    Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 91.2 (1981): 319-323

  • Davis, Rodney O.
    Private Albert Cashier as Regarded by His/Her Comrades
    Illinois Historical Journal 82.2 (1989): 108-112
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Founding Mothers: Women in America in the Revolutionary Era.
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant
    Gender as Stigma: Probing Some Sensitive Issues
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.1 (1988): 29-43
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant and Conover Hunt
    Remember the Ladies: Women in 
    America 1750-1815
    New York: Viking, 1976
  • Dean, Donna
    Warriors Without Weapons.
    1997
  • DeFleur, Lois B., David Gillman, and William Marshak
    Sex Integration of the U.S. Air Force Academy
    Armed Forces & Society 4.4 (1978): 607-621
  • Devilbiss, M. C.
    Gender Integration and Unit Deployment: A Study of GI Jo
    Armed Forces & Society 11.4 (1985): 523-552
  • Devilbiss, M. C.
    Women in Combat: A Quick Summary of the Arguments on Both Sides
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.1 (1990): 29-32
  • Devilbiss, M. C.
    ‘Women in the Army Policy Review’ — a military sociologist’s analysis
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.3 (1983): 90-106
  • DeWitt, Gill
    The First Navy Flight Nurse on a Pacific Battlefield
    Fredericksburg, TX: The Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 1983
  • Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony. Colonial Women of Affairs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931
  • Dunn, Joe P.
    Women and the Vietnam War: A Bibliographic Review
    Journal of American Culture 12. (1989): 79-86
  • Eads, Valerie
    Military Women in Fantasy and Science Fiction
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.3 (1983): 59-68
  • Earley, Charity Adams
    One Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC.
    College Station, TX: Texas A&S University Press, 1989
  • Ebbert, Jean and Marie-Beth Hall
    Crossed Currents: Navy Women from WWI to Tailhook
    Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1993
  • Edmonds, S. Emma E.
    Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy
    Trans. Elizabeth Leonard, ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 1999
  • Edmonds, S. Emma E.
    Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Comprising The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battlefields
    Hartford: W.S Williams & Co., 1865

  • Edmunds, Lavinia
    Beyond Molly Pitcher
    Johns Hopkins Magazine 39.1 (1987): 14-17
  • Ellet, Elizabeth F.
    The Women of the American Revolution. Vol. 2, p123, 126.
    New York: Baker and Scribner, 1948-50. 3 vols.
  • Engel, Barbara Alpern
    Women, gender & political choice in the revolutionary movement of the 1870’s
    Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Marjorie Mayrock Center for Soviet and East European Research, 1988

  • Enloe, Cynthia.
    Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of Women’s Lives.
    Boston: South End Press, 1983
  • Enloe, Cynthia
    United States Country Report: Women and Militarization in the late ‘80s
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.1 (1988): 72-92
  • Enloe, Cynthia and Harold Jordan
    Black Women in the Military
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.4 (1985): 108-116
  • Enloe, Cynthia
    The Politics of Constructing the American Woman Soldier
    Women Soldiers: Images and Realities
    eds. Addis, Elisabetta, Valeria E. Russo and Lorenza Sebesta
    New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 81-110
  • Ewers, John C.
    Deadlier than the Male
    American Heritage 26.4 (1965): 10-13
  • Fletcher, Jean W., Joyce S. McMahon, and Aline O. Quester.
    Tradition, Technology, and the Changing Roles of Women in the Navy
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 11.3-4 (1993): 57-82
  • Forance, Priscilla
    Women and Arms: Portrayals through Film
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.1 (1983): 81-85
  • Fowler, William W.
    Pioneer Women of America
    Hartford: S. S. Scranton, 1891
  • Frank, Mary E. V.
    Army and Navy Nurses Held as Prisoners of War During World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.2 (1988): 82-90
  • Frankel, Noralee
    The Southern Side of “Glory”: Mississippi African-American Women During the Civil War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.3 (1990): 28-36
  • Freeman, Lucy and Alma Bond
    America’s First Woman Warrior: The Courage of Deborah Sampson.
    New York: Paragon, 1992
  • Fridlington, Robert.
    A ‘Diversion’ in Newark: A Letter from the New Jersey Continental Line, 1778
    New Jersey History 105.1-2 (1987): 75-78
  • Friedl, Vicki L. Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: a research guide and annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996
  • Gavin, Lettie
    American Women in World War I: They Also Served
    University Press of Colorado, 1997
  • Geib, Aleta Esther
    The Amazon complex : ideological dominance and resistance in news media representations of women in the military
    PhD dissertation. University of Akron, 1996
  • Gilbert, Michael H.
    Women in Combat: Who Should Make the Policy
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.2 (1992)
  • Gill, 11C Julie Kathleene, USN and USN 11C Daniel Zozung
    Male Midshipmen’s Attitudes Toward Women: 1976-1996
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Leadership in a Gender-Diverse Military: Women at the Nation’s Service Academies; The Twenty-Year Mark. Conference Proceedings 20-23 March 1997, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut) 15.3&4 (1997): 117-
  • Godfrey, Audrey M.
    Housewives, Hussies, and Heroines, or the Women of Johnston’s Army
    Utah Historical Quarterly 54. (1986): 157-178
  • Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga
    They Also Served: American Women in World War II
    Birch Lane Press, 1995
  • Gruner, Elliot
    Merging Fear and Fantasy: Images of Women at West Point
    American Trancendentalist Quarterly 7. (1993)
  • Gruner, Elliot
    Women as POWs: Forgetting the Rhonda Cornum Story
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 14.1 (1996): 1-14
  • Guba, Emil F.
    Deborah Samson alias Robert Shurtliff: Revolutionary War Soldier
    New York: Paragon House, 1992
  • Hall, Edward H.
    Margaret Corbin, Heroine of the Battle of Fort Washington, 16 Nov. 1776
    New York: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,, 1932
  • Hall, Richard.
    They All Fought at Bull Run
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 9.3 (1991): 48-54
  • Hall, Richard
    Patriots in Disguise: Women Warriors of the Civil War
    New York: Paragon, 1993
  • Hanaford, Phoebe A.
    Daughters of 
    America
    Augusta, ME: True & Company, 1882
  • Hassenchal, Fran
    Mary Hays and Deborah Sampson: The Rhetoric of Neglect, Praise, and Expectation
    ERIC Ed 102620
  • Haynie, Henry
    The Nineteenth 
    Illinois
    Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1912
  • Hendrix, Scott N.
    In the Army: Women, Camp Followers and Gender Roles in the British Army in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1765
    A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military
    eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird
    New York: Longman, 2000. 33-48

  • Herbert, Melissa
    Amazons or Butterflies: The Recruitment of Women into the Military During World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 9.2 (1991): 50-68
  • Herrera-Graf, Mercedes
    Stress, Suffering, and Sacrifice: Women POWS In The Civil War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Special Issue: Women Prisoners Of War) 16.3&4 (1998): 1-24

  • Hewitt, Linda L.
    Women Marines in World War I
    Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, HQ USMC, 1974
  • Hillerich, Karen
    One Conscientious Objector’s Struggle in the Navy: “Finding a Word for the Pain in Her Soul”
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.2 (1983): 61-67
  • Hodgson, Marion Stegeman
    Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996
  • Hoffert, Sylvia D.
    Madame Loreta Velazquez: Heroine or Hoaxer?
    Civil War Times Illustrated Jun 1978: 24-31
  • Hunter, Edna J., Sharon J. Rose, and J. Bradley Hamlin.
    Women in the Military: An Annotated Bibliography
    Armed Forces & Society 4.4 (1978): 695-716
  • Imparato, Edward T.
    Rescue from Shangri-La
    Paducah, KY: Turner Pub., 1997
  • Janda, Lance
    Stronger than Custom: 
    West Point and the Admission of Women
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002
  • Janda, Lance
    ‘A Simle Matter of Equality’: The Admission of Women to West Point
    A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military.
    Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird
    Longman, 2000. 305-319
  • Jensen, Kimberly, Ed.
    Women, War and the Military from the American Revolution to the Post Cold-War Era
    Garland, 1997
  • Johnson, Louanne
    Making Waves
    New York: St. Martin’s, 1986
  • Johnson, Louanne
    This Man’s Navy
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.3 (1988): 12-25
  • Jones, Kathleen
    Dividing the Ranks: Women and the Draft
    Women, Militarism and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory
    eds. Elshtain, Jean Bethke and Sheila Tobias
    Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. 125-136
  • Kaufman, Janet E.
    Under the Petticoat Flag: Women in the Confederate Army
    Southern Studies 23.4 (1984): 363-375
  • Kochendoerfer, Violet A.
    One Woman’s World War II
    University Press of Kentucky, 1994
  • Land, Robert H.
    Margaret Cochran Corbin: Notable American Women 1607-1950
    Ed. James, Edward T.
    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. Vol. I: 385-386
  • Landis, John B.
    Investigation into American Tradition of  [the] Woman Known as Molly Pitcher
    Journal of American History 5 (1911): 80-96

  • Larson, C. Kay.
    Bonny Yank and Ginny Reb
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.1 (1990): 33-48
  • Larson, C. Kay.
    Bonny Yank and Ginny Reb Revisited
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.2 (1992): 35-61
  • Larson, C. Kay
    ‘Til I come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women In World War II
    Minerva Center, 1995
  • Laska, Vera
    ‘Remember the Ladies’: Outstanding Women of the American Revolution
    Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Publication, 1976
  • Leonard, Elizabeth D.
    Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War
    New York: Norton, 1994
  • Leonard, Patrick.
    America’s First (and Almost Unknown) Female Soldier
    Yankee February 1988: 170
  • Leonard, Patrick J.
    Ann Bailey: Mystery Woman of 1777
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 11.3-4 (1993): 1-4
  • Leonard, Patrick L.
    “Deborah Samson: Official Heroine of the State of Massachusetts.”
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.3 (1988): 61-68
  • Lipsky, David
    War and Peace Part 2: Chicken Legs
    Rolling Stone 16 Dec 1999: 202-203

  • Litoff, Judy Barrett and David C. Smith, Eds.
    We’re in This War, Too: World War II Letters from American Women in Uniform
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
  • Litoff, Judy Barrett and David C. Smith, Eds.
    American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II
    Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1996
  • Lorentzen, Lois Ann and Jennifer Turpin, Eds.
    The Women and War Reader.
    New York: New York University Press, 1998
  • Massey, Elizabeth
    Women in the Civil War
    U Nebraska P, 1994
  • Massey, Mary E.
    Bonnet Brigades
    New York: Knopf, 1966
  • McElligott, Mary Ellen
    ‘A Monotony Full of Sadness: The Diary of Nadine Turchin
    Illinois State Historical Society Journal 52. (1977): 27-89
  • McIntosh, Elizabeth P.
    Sisterhood of Spies : The Women of Oss, America’s First Strategic Intelligence Service
    Naval Institute Press, 1998
  • McMichael, William H.
    The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy’s Tailhook Scandal
    New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997
  • Mead, Margaret.
    The Women in the War
    While You Were Gone: A Report of Wartime Life in the United States. Ed. Goodman, Jack
    New York: Da Capo Press, 1974
  • Medlicott, Alexander Jr.
    The Legend of Lucy Brewer: An Early American Novel
    New England Quarterly 39. (1966): 465-467
  • Merryman, Molly
    Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
    New York: New York University Press, 1997
  • Meyer, Eugene L.
    The soldier left a portrait and her eyewitness account
    Smithsonian 1995: 96-104
  • Meyer, Leisa D.
    Creating G. I. Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II
    Feminist Studies 18.3 (1992): 581-601
  • Miller, Grace Porter
    Call of Duty: A 
    Montana Girl in World War II
    Louisiana State University Press, 1999
  • Millett, Allan R.
    Semper Fiedelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps.
    New York: Macmillan, 1980
  • Mitchell, Brian.
    Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military
    1989
  • Mitchell, Brian
    Women in the Military : Flirting with Disaster
    Washington, DC Lanham, MD: Regnery Pub., 1998
  • Moody, Pauline
    Massachusetts Deborah Sampson
    Privately Published, 1975
  • Moore, Brenda
    To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas During World War II
    New York University Press, 1996
  • Moore, Brenda L.
    Black, Female and in Uniform: An African-American Woman in the United States Army 1973-1979
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.2 (1990): 62-66
  • Moore, Brenda L.
    African-American Women in the US Military
    Armed Forces & Society 17.3 (1991): 363-384
  • Moore, Frank
    Women of the War: Their Heroism and Sacrifice
    Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866
  • Moore, Margaret L.
    Memories of a Woman Marine (1950-1957): An Oral History by Margaret L. Moore
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.2 (1985): 123-124

  • Moore, Molly
    A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
    New York: Scribner, 1993
  • Morden, Bettie J.
    The Women’s Army Corps, 1945-1978
    Washington, DC: GPO, 1990
  • Moskos, Charles.
    Racial Integration in the Armed Forces
    American Journal of Sociology 72. (1966): 132-148
  • Moskos, Charles
    Minority Groups in Military Organization
    Handbook of Military Institutions. Ed. Little, Roger. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1973
  • Moskos, Charles
    Female GIs in the Field
    Society Sep/Oct 1985: 28-33
  • Moskos, Charles
    Army Women
    Women in the Military
    Ed. Blacksmith, E. A. New York: Wilson, 1992. 40-54
  • Moskos, Charles
    From Citizens’ Army to Social Laboratory
    Wilson Quarterly Winter 1993: 83-92
  • Nevins, Allan, Ed.
    Bonnet Brigades: The Impact of the Civil War
    The Civil War Centennial Commission Series
    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966
  • Newman, Debra L.
    The Propaganda and the Truth: Black Women and World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 4.4 (1986): 72-92
  • Norman, Elizabeth
    Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990
  • Norman, Elizabeth
    We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
    Random House, 1999
  • Norton, Mary Beth
    Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1980
  • Oates, Stephen B.
    A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War
    New York: The Free Press, 1994
  • Perez, Julia.
    ‘Be All That You Can Be’: the 1958 Army
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 4.1 (1986): 157-166
  • Pershing, Jana L.
    Gender Disparities in Enforcing the Honor Concept at the U.S. Naval Academy
    Armed Forces & Society 27.3 (2001): 419-
  • Pierce, Grace M.
    Three American Women Pensioned for Military Service
    Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine September 1975: 140-145, continued in October, pp. 222-228
  • Proxmire, Senator William.
    Three Myths about Women and Combat
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 4.4 (1986)
  • Putney, Martha S.
    When the Nation Was in Need: Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II
    Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1992
  • Reed, Brian J.
    Gender Integrated Basic Training: A Theoretical Analysis of the Continuing Debate
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 17.2 (1999): 18-32
  • Rees, John
    “The Multitude of Women” : An Examination of the numbers of female camp followers with the Continental Army, Part 1.”
    Brigade Dispatch XXIII.4 (1992): 5-17
  • Rees, John
    “The Multitude of Women” : An Examination of the numbers of female camp followers with the Continental Army, Part 2.”
    Brigade Dispatch XXIV.1 (1992): 6-16
  • Rees, John
    “The Multitude of Women” : An Examination of the numbers of female camp followers with the Continental Army, Part 3.”
    Brigade Dispatch XXIV.2 (1993): 2-6
  • Rees, John
    “The Multitude of Women” An Examination of the Numbers of Female Camp Followers With the Continental Army
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 14.2 (1996): 1-47
  • Reeves, Connie
    Women Veterans in the Spanish-American War: Legacy for the Navy Nurse Corps
    Naval History (1998)
  • Roberts, Jeffrey J.
    On John Keegan, Soviet “Amazons,” and the Issue of Women in Combat
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 14.3&4 (1996): 11-28

  • Rustad, Michael
    Women in Khaki: The American Enlisted Woman
    New York: Praeger, 1982
  • Samuelson, Nancy B.
    Employment of Female Spies in the American Civil War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 7.3-4 (1989): 57-66
  • Samuelson, Nancy B.
    The Fate Worse than Death: Women Captives of the Indian Wars
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.4 (1985): 117-137
  • Schneider, Dorothy and Carol J. Schneider.
    Sound Off! American Military Women Speak Out
    New York: EP Dutton, 1988
  • Schneider, Dorothy and Carol J. Schneider
    Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I
    New York: Viking Penguin, 1991
  • Seeley, Charlotte Palmer, Ed.
    American Women and the 
    U.S. Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women
    Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
  • Shattuck, H. R.
    Anna Ella Carroll: The Originator of the Tennessee Campaign
    Outing 6. (1885): 403-9
  • Shawver, Lois
    And the Flag Was Still There: Straight People,  Gay People, and Sexuality in the 
    U.S. Military
    New York: Harrington Press, 1996
  • Shawver, Lois
    Privacy, Modesty and the Ban against Gays in the Military
    Out in Force: Gays in the Military
    eds. Jobe, J. B., G. M. Herek and R. Carney
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 226-244
  • Shell, Cheryl
    Making Sense of Vietnam and Telling the Real Story: Military Women in the Combat Zone
    Vietnam Generation 1.3-4 (1989)
  • Sherman, Janann
    “They either need these women or they do not”: Margaret Chase Smith and the Fight for Regular Status for Women in the Military
    Journal of Military History 54.1 (1990): 47-78

  • Sherrow, Victoria
    Women and the Military: an Encyclopedia
    Denver: ABC-Clio, 1996
  • Siefert, Ruth
    Rape in Wars: Analytical Approaches
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 11.2 (1993)
  • Skaine, Rosemarie
    Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat
    McFarland, 1998
  • Snyder, Charles McCool
    Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants
    Women in America: From Colonial Times to the 20th Century
    New York: Arno Press, 1974

  • Soderbergh, Peter A.
    Women Marines: The World War II Era.
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992
  • Soderbergh, Peter A.
    Women Marines in the Korean War Era.
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994
  • Spears, Sally
    Call Sign Revlon: The Life and Death of Navy Fighter Pilot Kara Hultgreen
    Naval Institute Press, 1998
  • Spelts, Doreen
    Women Casualties of the Persian Gulf Operations: A Bibliography
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.1 (1992)
  • Spiegel, Allen D. and Andrea M. Spiegel
    Civil War Doctress Mary: Only Woman to Win Congressional Medal of Honor
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 12.Fall (1994)
  • Stewart, Jennifer Nichol
    Wacky Times: An Analysis of the Wac in World War II and its Effects on Women
    International Social Science Review 75.1-2 (2000): 26-37
  • Stewart, Miller J.
    Army Laundresses: Ladies of the ‘Soap Suds Row’
    Nebraska History 61. (1980): 421-436
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    Women and the Combat Exemption
    Parameters 10.2 (1980): 51-59
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks
    Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy
    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981
  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks.
    Arms and the Enlisted Woman.
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988
  • Stoddard, Eleanor
    Published Memoirs of Military Women in World War II: A Bibliography
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 15.1 (1997): 33-42
  • Stremlow, Colonel Mary V.
    Free A Marine To Fight: Women Marines In World War II
    Marines in World War II commemorative series
    Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, HQ USMC, 1994
  • Stremlow, Colonel Mary V.
    A History of the Women Marines, 1946-1977
    Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, HQ USMC, 1986.
  • Swan, John
    Never Before a Case Like This
    MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 10.4 (1998): 98-101
  • Tetreault, Mary Ann
    Teaching About Women and the Military
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.2 (1985): 74-93
  • Thomas, Patricia J.
    Women in the Military; American and the British Commonwealth
    Armed Forces & Society 4.4 (1978): 623-645

  • Thomson, Robin J.
    The Coast Guard and Women’s Reserve in World War II
    Washington: Coast Guard Historical Office, 1992
  • Tilley, John A.
    A History of Women in the Coast Guard
    Washington: US Coast Guard, 1996
  • Timmons, Tracy.
    ‘We’re Looking for a Few Good Men’: The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Women in the Military
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.2 (1992): 20-33
  • Tinling, Marion
    Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women’s History in the 
    U.S.
    Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986
  • Tomblin, Barbara Brooks
    G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
    1996
  • Treadway, Sandra Gioia
    Anna Maria Lane: An Uncommon Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Virginia Cavalcade 37.3 (1988): 134-147
  • Turner, Karen G. and Thanh Hao Phan
    Even the Women Must Fight: memories of war from North Vietnam
    New York: Wiley, 1998
  • Velazquez, Loreta Janeta
    The Woman in 
    Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army
    Reprint of 1876 ed. New York: Arno, 1972
  • Weatherford, Doris
    American Women and World War II
    New York: Facts on File, 1990
  • Weinstein, Laurie and Christie White, eds.
    Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the 
    United States and Canada.
    Bergin & Garvey, 1997
  • White, John Todd
    The Truth about Molly Pitcher
    The American Revolution: Whose Revolution?
    eds. Martin, James Kirby and Karen R. Stubaus
    Huntington, NY: R. E. Krieger, 1977. 99-105

  • Willenz, June A.
    Women Veterans: America’s Forgotten Heroines
    New York: Continuum, 1983
  • Williams, Vera S.
    WASPs: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
    Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1994
  • Wilson, Donna L.
    Women and Homophobia in the Armed Services: An Annotated Bibliography (Part One)
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 7.1 (1989): 63-80
  • Wilson, Donna L.
    “Women and Homophobia in the Armed Services: An Annotated Bibliography (Part Two).”
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 7.2 (1989): 60-68
  • Wingo, Josette D.
    Mother Was a Gunner’s Mate: World War II in the Wavs.
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994
  • Witherspoon, Ralph P.
    Female Soldiers in Combat – a Policy Adrift
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.1 (1988): 1-28
  • Wittenmeyer, Annie
    Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War
    Boston: E. B. Stillings, 1895
  • Wood, Ann Douglas
    The War Within a War: Women Nurses in the Union Army
    Civil War History 18. (1972): 197-212
  • Woodward, Helen Beal
    The Bold Women
    Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1956
  • Woolsey, Jane Stuart
    Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse

    Edinborough Press, 1996
  • Wright, Maj Ann
    The Roles of US Army Women in Grenada
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 2.2 (1984): 103-113
  • Yianilos, Theresa Karas
    Woman Marine: A Memoir of a Woman Who Joined the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II to “Free a Marine to Fight”
     La Jolla CA: La Jolla Book Publishing Company, 1994
  • Young, Alfred
    Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson Gannett
    Continental Soldier
  •  

Aviation

Most recommended:

  • Carl, Ann B.
    A Wasp Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
    Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999
  • Cochran, Jacqueline
    The Stars at Noon
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1954
  • Douglas, Deborah G.
    United States Women in Aviation 1940-1985
    Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space No. 7
    Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990
  • England, J. Merton
    Women Pilots of the AAF, 1941-1944
    AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces. USAAF Historical Study No. 55
    March 1946
  • Hodgson, Marion Stegeman
    Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996
  • Keil, Sally van Wagenen
    Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines
    New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1979
  • Merryman, Molly
    Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II
    New York: New York University Press, 1998
  • Noggle, Anne
    For God, Country, and the Thrill of It: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II
    College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990

Additional:

  • Fifinellas: America’s Women Flyers Ferry Army Planes
    Flying July 1943: 76
  • Here Come the WAFS
    Time 7 Jun 1942: 60
  • They Let Her Fly Anything Everywhere Except Into Combat
    Journal Of The Council On America’s Military Past 17.3: 11-14
  • Unnecessary and Undesirable?
    Time 29 May 1944: 66
  • Allison, Gwenyth
    Women Conquer Airmen’s Prejudices
    Skyways 194?: 56-60
  • Arnold, Henry Harley
    Global Mission
    New York: Harper, 1949
  • Arthur, Julietta K.
    Now You Can Learn to Fly
    Independent Woman October 1940: 320-321, 336
  • Arthur, Julietta K.
    Wings for the Working Girl
    Flying December 1942: 41-42, 136-137
  • Bartels, Diane R.
    Sharpie: The Life Story of Evelyn Sharp Nebraska’s Aviatrix
    Dageforde Publishing, 1996
  • Boom, Kathleen M.
    Women in the A.A.F
    The Army Air Forces in World War II
    eds. Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate
    Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1958. Vol. 7: 503-540
  • Bowater, Eric V.
    Air Transport Auxiliary Service
    Flying and Popular Aviation
    September 1942: 172-173, 206
  • Bracke, Gerhard
    Melitta Graefin Stauffenberg
    Das Leben einer Fliegerin
    Munich: Langen Mueller, 1990
  • Bradbrooke, Joan
    Atta Girls! American Girls Join the ATA to Ferry Britain’s Fighters
    Skyways January 1943: 34-35, 44-45, 73
  • Carter, Rowland
    The Ladies Join the Air Forces
    Flying December 1942: 87-88, 96
  • Chessman, E. C.
    Brief Glory (the story of A.T.A.)
    London: Petty and Sons Ltd., 1946
  • Cochran, Jacqueline
    Interview with Capt. Robert S. Bartanowicz and Maj. John “Fred” Shiner
    11-12 Mar 1976, USAF Academy, CO
  • Cole, Jean Hascall
    Women Pilots of World War II
    Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 1992
  • Crane, Mardo
    The Women with Silver Wings
     99 News 5.Special Issue (1978): 8-13
  • Craven, Wesley Frank and James Lea Cate, eds.
    The Army Air Forces in World War II.
     7 vols. Vol. 7
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958
  • Cummings, Lucy Aylestock
    Perceptions of ‘pretty’pilots: gender roles in World War II
    Senior thesis. Harvard University, 1997
  • Cummings, Missy
    Hornet’s Nest: The Experiences of One of the Navy’s First Female Fighter Pilots
    San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shangha: Writer’s Showcase, 1999
  • Dunivin, Karen O.
    Gender Identity Among Air Force Female Aviators
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 9.1 (1991)
  • Escott, Beryl E.
    Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War II
    Alan Sutton, 1995
  • Gott, Kay.
    Women in Pursuit

    McKinleyville, CA: 1993
  • Gower, Pauline
    A.T.A. Girls: Britain’s Women Flyers Take Their Place with the Men in Ferrying England’s Aircraft
    Flying August 1943: 30-32, ff.
  • Johnson, Ann R.
    The WASP of World War II
    Aerospace Historian 12.2 & 3 (1970): 76-82
  • Hager, Alice Rogers
    The WAFS Will Deliver
    Skyways December 1942: 13, 40, 65
  • Harrison, D. Phyllis
    Saga of an Airwoman

    Penticton, B.C.: D.P. Harrison, 1995
  • Haynsworth, Leslie, Lelie Haynsworth, and David M. Toomey
    Amelia Earhart’s Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age
    William Morrow & Company, 1998
  • Johnson, Ann R.
    The WASP of World War II
    Aerospace Historian 12.2 & 3 (1970): 76-82
  • Keil, Sally Van Wagenen
    Those Magnificent Women in Their Flying Machines
    Viva May 1977: 44-47, 100-102
  • LoPinto, Winnie
    Go Home Little Fifinella
    Naval Institute Press, 1996
  • Marx, Walter J.
    Women Pilots in the Air Transport Command (revised)

    Historical Branch, Intelligence and Security Division, Headquarters, Air Transport Command. AFHRA 300.0721-1
    1945
  • McMichael, William H.
    The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy’s Tailhook Scandal
    New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997
  • Monserud, Nels O.
    Medical Considerations: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Program
    Air Surgeon’s Office, HQ/AAF. 141.28-30
    1945
  • Morley, Richard A.
    The Lady Was A Test Pilot: Wasp Ann Baumgartner Carl At Wright Field
    American Aviation Historical Society Journal 44.2 (1999): 98-101
  • Render, Shirley
    No Place for a Lady: The Story of Canadian Women Pilots, 1928 1992
    Winnipeg: Portage and Main Press, 1992
  • Rickman, Sarah Byrn
    Nancy Batson, Pursuit Pilot Extraordinaire
    Alabama Heritage 65. (2002): 14-23
  • Ringenberg, Margaret J. and with Jane L. Roth
    Girls Can’t Be Pilots: An Aerobiography
    Fort Wayne, IN: Daedalus Press, 1998
  • Scharr, Adela Riek
    Sisters in the Sky: Volume I–the WAFS
    . Vol. 1
    Gerald, MO: Patrice Press, 1986. 2 vols
  • Scharr, Adela Riek
    Sisters in the Sky: Volume II–the WASP
    . Vol. 2.
    Gerald, MO: Patrice Press, 1986. 2 vols
  • Scrivener, Laurie
    U.S. Military Women In World War II: THE SPAR, WAC, WAVES, WASP, And Women Marines In U.S. Government Publications
    Journal of Government Information 26.4 (1999): 361-383
  • Selby, Barbara
    The Fifinellas
    Flying July 1943: 77-78, 166-167
  • Smith, Elizabeth Simpson
    Coming out Right; The Story of Jacqueline Cochran, The First Woman to Break The Sound Barrier
    Walker & C, 1991
  • Stone, Tessa
    Creating a (Gendered?) Military Identity: the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Great Britain in the Second World War
    Women’s History Review 8.4 (1999): 605(20)
  • Strother, Dora Doughterty
    The W.A.S.P. Training Program
    American Aviation Historical Society Journal 19. (1974): 298-306
  • Tanner, Doris Brinker
    Zoot Suits and Parachutes and Wings of Silver, Too!: The World War II Air Force Training of Women Pilots 1942-1944
    Paducah: Turner Publishing Company, 1996
  • Thaden, Louise
    High, Wide and Frightened
    New York: Stackpole Sons, 1938
  • The Ninety-Nines, Inc
    The History of the Ninety-Nines, Inc.
    Oklahoma City, OK: The Ninety-Nines, Inc., 1979
  • Verges, Marianne
    On Silver Wings: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, 1942-1944
    New York: Ballantine, 1991
  • Weisfeld, Ellen Kay
    The Role of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II
    MA thesis. Villanova University, 1982