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Most Recommended:
- Bloom, Anne R.
Israel: The Longest War
Female Soldiers – Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Ed. Goldman, Nancy Loring
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 137-162 - Bloom, Anne R.
Women in the Defense Forces
Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel
eds. Swirski, Barbara and Marilyn P. Safir
New York: Pergamon Press, 1991. 128-138 - Izraeli, Dafna N.
Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces
A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird
New York: Pearson Education, 2000. 256-274
- Izraeli, Dafna N.
Gendering Military Service in the Israel Defence Forces
A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military
Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird
Longman, 2000. 256-274
- Katz, Doris
The Lady Was a Terrorist, During Israel’s War of Liberation
New York: Shiloni Publishers, 1953
Additional:
- Allen, Peter
The Yom Kippur War
Boston: Scribner, 1982
- Ben-Tsevi, Tseviyah Katsenelson, Shoshanah Beker, and Helah Klainberger
Zeh hozer elai– : sipuran shel Zivah Golan
Tel Aviv: ha-Kibuts ha-me’uhad : Misrad ha-bitahon, 1989
- Ben-Yehuda, Netiva
1948–Bein Hasefirot
[1948–Between Eras: A novel on the beginning of the war]
Jerusalem: Keter Publishing, 1981
- Ben-Yehuda, Netiva
Mibaad La’avotot
[Through the Binding Ropes: a novel on three months in 1948]
Jerusalem: Domino Press, 1985
- Ben-Yehuda, Netiva
Keshepartza Hamilchama
[When the State of Israel Broke Out]
Jerusalem: Maxwell-Macmillen-Keter, 1991
- Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait
Coming Home
Tel-Aviv: Massadah – P.E.C. Press, 1963
- Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait
Derachai Siparti
[The Paths I Followed]
Jerusalem: Kiryat-Sefer, 1972
- Ben-Zvi, Rachel Yanait
Before Golda: Manya Shochat A Biography
Trans. Shurin, Sandra
New York: Biblio Press, 1989 - Bloom, Anne R. and Rivka Bar-Yosef
Israeli Women and Military Service: A Socialization Experience
Women’s Worlds. eds. Safir, Marilyn, Martha T. Mednick, Dafne Israeli and Jessie Bernard
New York: Praeger, 1985. 260-69
- Brekus, Catherine A.
Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998
- Creveld, Martin van
Women of Valor: Why Israel Doesn’t Send Women Into Combat
Policy Review Fall 1991: 65-67
- Gal, R.
A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986 - Ishah, Kol
News of Jewish Women
Lilith 20.1 (1995): 4 - Johnson, Barbara E.
Military Roles of Israeli Women
Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 7.3-4 (1989)
- Katz, Samuel M.
Israel’s Army
Novato, CA: Presidio, 1990 - Katz, Samuel
Heyl Nashim: The Israel Defense Forces Women’s Corps, 1948-1988
Military Illustrated: Past & Present April/May (1988): 8-15 - Kurzman, Don
Genesis 1948 - LaCocque, Andre
The Feminine Unconventional: Four Subversive Figures in Israel’s Tradition
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990
- Lentin, Ronit, Ed.
Gender and Catastrophe
New York: Zed Books, 1997
- Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener
Images of Women in Peace and War
London: Macmillan, 1987
- Meir, Golda
My Life
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975 - Reid-Banks, Lynn
Torn Country: Oral History of the War of Independence
- Reinharz, Shulamit
“Toward a Model of Female Political Action: The Case of Manya Shochat, Founder of the First Kibbutz.”
Women’s Studies International Forum 7.4 (1984): 275-287
- Richardson, Jo A. and Ruth H. Howes
“How Three Female National Leaders Have Used the Military.”
Women and the Use of Military Force. Eds. Howes, Ruth and Michael Stevenson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. 149-
- Saywell, Shelley
Women in War
Markham, Ont: Viking, 1985
- Shochat, Manya
The Guarding of the Land
Kovetz Hashomer. Ed. (Rubashow), Rachel Katznelson Shazar
Tel-Aviv: Archion Ha’avodah, 1937. 51-6
- Shochat, Manya
My Path in Hashomer
Sefer Hashomer
Tel Aviv: Devir, 1957. 385-394
- Shochat, Manya
The Collective
The Plough Woman: Memoirs of the Pioneer Women of Palestine
Ed. (Rubashow), Rachel Katznelson Shazar
New York: Herzl Press, 1975
- Tétreault, Mary Ann
Women and revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994 - Williams, Louis
The Israel Defense Forces: A People’s Army
Tel-Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1989
- Yanait, Rachel, Itzhak Avrahami, and Yerach Etzion, Eds.
Hahaganah Biyerushalaim [The Defense in Jerusalem] 2 vols.
Jerusalem: Kiryat-Sefer, 1973-1975
Africa and Middle East
Most Recommended:
- Alpern, Stanley B.
Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women’s Regiment of Dahomey
New York University Press, 1998
- Bay, Edna
The Royal Women of Abomey
PhD dissertation. Boston University, 1977
- Bay, Edna
Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998
- Coughlin, Kathryn M.
Women, War and the Veil: Muslim Women in Resistance and Combat
A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird
New York: Pearson Education, 2000. 223-239
- Graeff-Wassink, Maria
Women at Arms: Is Ghadafi a Feminist?
Trans. Bracuti, Elio
London: Darf Publishers, 1993
- Graeff-Wassink, Maria
The Militarization of Woman and ‘Feminism’ in Libya
Women Soldiers: Images and Realities
Eds. Addis, Elisabetta, Valeria E. Russo and Lorena Sebesta
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. 137-149
- Edgerton, Robert B.
Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War
Boulder: Westview, 2000
- Kanogo, Tabitha
Kikuyu Women and the Politics of Protest: Mau Mau
Images of Women in Peace and War
Eds. Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden and Shirley Ardener
London: Macmillan, 1987. 78-99 - Ladewig, Nicole F.
Between Worlds: Algerian Women in Conflict
A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird
New York: Pearson Education, 2000. 240-251
- Lyons, T. and D. Moore
Written in the Revolutions: (Mis)Representations, the Politics of Gender and the Zimbabwean National Liberation War
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Annual Conference Proceedings 1995
- Staunton, Irene, Ed.
Mothers of the Revolution: The War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women
Indiana University Press, 1991
- Turshen, Meredeth and Clotilde Twagiramariya, Eds.
What Women Do In War Time: Gender and Conflict in Africa
Zed/St. Martins, 1998 (June)
Additional:
- Alie, Joe, A. D.
A New History of Sierra Leone
London: Macmillan, 1990
- Amrane, Djamila
La Femme Algerienne et la Guerre de Liberation Nationale (1854-62)
Actes du Colloque d’Oran, 1980 - Baron, Salo Wittmayer
A social and religious history of the Jews
2nd , rev. and enl. ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952
- Batezat, E., M. Mwalo, and K. Truscott
Women and Independence: The Heritage and the Struggle
Zimabwe’s Prospects: Issues of race, Class, State and Capital in Southern Africa
Ed. Stoneman, Colin
London: MacMillan, 1988
- British South Africa Company
The ’96 Rebellions
Reports of the Native Disturbances in Rhodesia
London: 1898
- Brooks, Geraldine
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
New York: Anchor Books, 1995
- Burton, Richard
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomey
London: 1864
- Chartrand, Rene
Legionnaires and Amazons
Military Illustrated 99 (1996) - Cooley, John K.
Baal, Christ, and Mohammed: religion and revolution in North Africa
New York: Holt, Rinehart,and Winston, 1965
- d’Almeida-Topor, Hélène
Les Amazones: une armée de femmes dans l’Afrique précoloniale
Paris: 1984
- Donner, Fred
The Early Islamic Conquest
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981 - Donzel, E. J. van
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edition. Vol. v. <1 >
Leiden [The Netherlands]: E.J. Brill, 1993
- Duncan, John
Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846 Vol. I.
London: Richard Bentley, 1847
- Fage, J.D., Ed.
Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 2.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1978
- Forbes, Frederick
Travels in Western Africa
London: 1847
- Forbes, Frederick E.
Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850
London,: Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans, 1851 - Gundersen, Joan R.
To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
American Women, 1600-1900. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996 - Harrel, Captain John S., USMC
The Amazons of Dahomey
Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 5.1 (1987)
- Helie-Lucas, Marie-Aimee
Women, Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle
Opening the Gates
Eds. Badran, Margot and Miriam Cooke
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990
- Hitti, Philip Khuri
History of the Arabs from the earliest times to the present
10th ed. London: Macmillan, 1970 - Kanogo, Tabitha
Kikuyu Women and the Politics of Protest: Mau Mau
Images of Women in Peace and War
eds. Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden and Shirley Ardener. London: Macmillan, 1987. 78-99
- Lan, D.
Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe
London: James Currey, 1985
- Lapchick, R. and S. Urdang
Oppression and Resistance: The Struggle of Women in Southern Africa
Westprot, CT.:Greenwood Press, 1992
- Law, Robin
The ‘Amazons’ of Dahomey
Paideuma 39 (1993): 245-60
- Martin, D. and P. Johnson
The Struggle For Zimbabwe: The Chimurenga War
London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- Qunta, Christine, Ed.
Women in Southern Africa
London: Allison and Busby, 1987
- Ranger, T.
Revolt in Southern Rhodesia, 1896-7: A Study of African Resistance
London: Heinemann, 1967
- Ranger, T.
Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study
London: James Currey, 1985
- Rodney, Walter
“A Reconsideration of the Mane Invasions of Sierra Leone.”
Journal of African History VII (1967): 219-246
- Shreeve, Nicholas, Ed.
Zeb-ul-Nissa Tawarikh/ The History of Zeb-ul-Nissa, the Begum Samru of Sardhana
Crossbush, UK: Bookwright, 1994 - Skaine, Rosemary
Power and Gender: Issues in Sexual Dominance and Harassment
McFarland, 1996
- Stott, Leda
Women and the Armed Struggle for Independence in Zimbabwe (1964-1979)
Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, 1989
- Tétreault, Mary Ann
Women and revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994
- Weiss, Ruth
Women of Zimbabwe
Harare: Nehanda Publishers, 1986
India
Most Recommended:
- Lebra-Chapman, Joyce
The Rani of Jhansi: a study in female heroism in India
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986 - Mernissi, Fatima and Mary Jo Lakeland
The forgotten queens of Islam
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993 - Richardson, Jo A. and Ruth H. Howes
How Three Female National Leaders Have Used the Military
Women and the Use of Military Force. eds. Howes, Ruth and Michael Stevenson. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993. 149-
Additional:
- Alavi, Seema
The Sepoys and the Company: tradition and transition in Northern India, 1770-1830
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 - Brij Bushan, Jamila
Sultan Raziya, Her Life and Times: a Reappraisal
New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1990 - Chand, Lalla Gokul
The History of Zeb-ul-Nissa, the Begum Samru of Sardhana. [Zeb-ul-Nissa Tawarikh]
Trans. Shreeve, translated from the Persian of Lalla Gokul Chand ; edited and annotated by Nicholas
Crossbush: Bookwright, 1994 - Holman, Dennis
Sikander Sahib; the life of Colonel James Skinner, 1778-1841
London,: Heinemann, 1961 - Kamath, K.V. and V. B. Kher
Devi Ahilyabai Holkar: the Philosopher Queen
Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1995 - Lall, J. S.
Begam Samru : fading portrait in a gilded frame
New Delhi: Roli Books, 1997 - Lentin, Ronit, Ed.
Gender and Catastrophe
New York: Zed Books, 1997 - Maharashtra (India). Dept. of Archives. and Sanjiv Parashuram Desai
Relations of the Rani of Jhansi. Selections from Maharashtra State Archives ; no. 2.
Bombay: Dept. of Archives Govt. of Maharashtra, 1990 - Nagrale, N. N.
Peshwa Maratha relations and Malhar Rao Holkar
Jaipur: Publication Scheme, 1989 - Rothery, Guy Cadogan
The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times
London: Francis Griffiths, 1910 - Sarma, Hira Lal
Ahilyabai
New Delhi: National Book Trust of India, 1969 - Sharma, Mahendra Narain
The Life and Times of Begam Samru of Sardhana, A.D. 1750-1836
Sahibabad: Vibhu Prakashan, 1985 - Shreeve, Nicholas
Dark Legacy
Crossbush, England: Bookwright, 1996
- Smyth, Sir John George
The Rebellious Rani
London: Muller, 1966
China/Japan/Korea
Most Recommended:
- Allan, Sheila
Diary of a Girl in Changi, 1941-45
Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1994
- Rigdon, Susan M.
Women in China’s Changing Military Ethic
A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. eds. Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird. New York: Pearson Education, 2000. 275-293 - Schellstede, Sangmie Choi and Soon Mi Yu
Comfort women speak: testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military (includes new United Nations human rights report)
New York: Holmes & Meier, 2000 - Segal, Mady Wechsler, Xiaolin Li, and David R. Segal
The Role of Women in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.1 (1992).
- Tanaka, Toshiyuki
Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the U.S. Occupation
Asia’s transformations
New York: Routledge, 2001 - Tétreault, Mary Ann
Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994
- Yoshimi, Yoshiaki and Suzanne O’Brien. Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II
Asia perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000
- Young, Helen Praeger
Women at Work: Chinese Soldiers on the Long March, 1934-1936
A Soldier and A Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military
eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird
New York: Pearson Education, 2000. 83-99
Additional:
- Kanehira
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre
Ed. Keene, Donald
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. 265-280 - Benton, Margaret Fukazawa
Hojo Masako: the Dowager Shogun
Heroic With Grace: Legendary Women Of Japan. Ed. Mulhern, Chieko Irie. ME Sharpe, 1991. 162-207 - Brook, Timothy
Documents on the rape of Nanking
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999 - Butler, Kenneth D.
Woman of Power Behind the Kamakura Bakufu: Hojo Masako
Great Historical Figures Of Japan. eds. Hyoe, Murakami and Thomas J. Harper
Tokyo: Japan Culture Institute, 1978. 79-90 - Chang, Iris
The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II
1st ed. New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1997 - Chao, Paul
Woman Under Communism: Family in Russia and China
Bayside, NY: General Hall, 1977 - Council, Asian Women’s Human Rights
War crimes on Asian women: military sexual slavery by Japan during World War II : the case of the Filipino comfort women
Manila: Asian Women Human Rights Council, 1998 - Hicks, George L.
The comfort women: Japan’s brutal regime of enforced prostitution in the Second World War
1st American ed.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1995 - Howard, Keith, Han’guk Chongsindae Munje Taech`aek Hyobuihoe., and Chongsindae Yon’guhoe (Korea)
True stories of the Korean comfort women: testimonies
London ; New York: Cassell, 1995 - Hummel, Arthur W., Ed.
Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period. 2 vols.
Washington: GPO, 1943-44 - Lentin, Ronit, Ed.
Gender and Catastrophe
New York: Zed Books, 1997 - McCullough, Helen Craig
The Tale of the Heike
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988 - Rachewiltz, Igor de, Ed.
In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yuan Period (1200-1300)
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlan, 1993 - The Role of Women in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
Armed Forces in the USSR and the People’s Republic of China
eds. Sandschneider, Eberhard and Jürgen Kuhlmann. Munich: Forum International, 1992. Vol. 14 - Serruys, Henry A.
Two Remarkable Women in Mongolia: The Third Lady Erketü Qatun and Dayiãing-beyiji
Asia Major 19. (1975): 191-245 - Siu, Bobby
Women of China: Imperialism and Women’s Resistance, 1900-1949
London: Zed Press, 1982 - Tyler, Royall
Tomoe: the Woman Warrior
Heroic With Grace: Legendary Women of Japan. Ed. Mulhern, Chieko Irie. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1991. 129-150 - Yihong, Pan
Feminism and Nationalism in China’s War of Resistance against Japan
The International History Review IX.1 (1997): 115-130