Africa/Asia/Middle East
Israel
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.
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.
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.
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.
Katz, Doris. The Lady Was a Terrorist, During Israel’s War of Liberation. New York: Shiloni Publishers, 1953.
Katz, Samuel. “Heyl Nashim: The Israel Defence Forces Women’s Corps, 1948-1988.” Military Illustrated: Past & Present April/May (1988).
Katz, Samuel M. Israel’s Army. Novato, CA: Presidio, 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.
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.
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:
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.
Graeff-Wassink, Maria. Women at Arms: Is Ghadafi a Feminist? Trans. Bracuti, Elio. London: Darf Publishers, 1993.
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.
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:
Alpern, Stanley B. Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women’s Regiment of Dahomey. New York University Press, 1998.
Amrane, Djamila. La Femme Algerienne et la Guerre de Liberation Nationale (1854-62). Actes du Colloque d’Oran, 1980.
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).
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.
Duncan, John. Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846. Vol. I. London: Richard Bentley, 1847.
Edgerton, Robert B. Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Boulder: Westview, 2000.
Fage, J.D., Ed. Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1978.
Forbes, Frederick. Travels in Western Africa. London: 1847.
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.
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.
Lan, D. Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. London: James Currey, 1985.
Lapchick, R. and S. Urdang. The Struggle of Women in Southern Africa. 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.
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.