The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600

Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published widely in modern German, European, and transatlantic history, gender history, and the history of military and war. Stefan Dudink teaches gender and sexuality studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His main field of research is the history of gender and sexuality in modern European political and military cultures. Sonya O. Rose is Professor Emerita and former Natalie Zemon Davis Collegiate Professor of History, Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her main fields of research are modern Britain and its empire, gender and labor history, the histories of national identity, citizenship and war, and the history of sexuality.

As noted in the introductory essay, the goal of this handbook is to make available the extensive research on war and gender and to challenge conventional military historiography, which has long omitted the study of women and gender...This handbook is an impressive work of scholarship. Summing Up: Essential

• Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Gender and the History of War DL The Development of the ResearchKaren Hagemann PART I: FROM THE THIRTY YEARS WAR AND COLONIAL CONQUEST TO THE WARS OF REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE 1. War and Gender: From the Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence- An Overview Stefan Dudink and Karen Hagemann 2. Wars, States and Gender in Early Modern European Warfare, 1600s-1780sPeter H. Wilson 3. War, Culture and Gender in Colonial and Revolutionary North AmericaSerena Zabin 4. War, Gender and Society in Late Colonial and Revolutionary Spanish AmericaCatherine Davies 5. Gender, Slavery, War and Violence in and beyond the Age of RevolutionElizabeth Colwill 6. Society, Mass Warfare and Gender in Europe during and after the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Alan Forrest 7. History and Memory of Army Women and Female Soldiers, 1770s-1870s Thomas Cardoza and Karen Hagemann 8. Citizenship, Mass Mobilization and Masculinity in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1770s-1870s Stefan Dudink PART II: WARS OF NATIONS AND EMPIRES 9. War and Gender: Nineteenth-Century Wars of Nations and Empires-An Overview Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and Mischa Honeck 10. Mobilization for War: Gendered Military Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Western SocietiesRobert A. Nye 11. Gender and the Wars of Nation-Building and Nation-Keeping in the Americas, 1830s-1870s Amy S. Greenberg 12. Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters and Changing Gender Relations in Colonial Warfare, 1830s-1910s Angela Woollacott 13. The "White Man" Race and Imperial War during the Long Nineteenth CenturyMarilyn Lake 14. Changing Modes of Warfare and the Gendering of Military Medical Care, 1850s-1920s Jean H. Quataert PART III: THE AGE OF THE WORLD WARS 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and Its Aftermath-An Overview Karen Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose 16. Mobilization for War: Gender, Culture and Music in the Age of World Wars Annegret Fauser 17. "Total Warfare," Gender and the Home/Front in Europe during the First and Second World Wars Susan R. Grayzel 18. Citizenship and Gender on the American and Canadian Homefronts during the First and Second World Wars Kimberly Jensen 19. History and Memory of Female Military Service in the Age of World Wars Karen Hagemann 20. Western States, Military Masculinity and Combat in the Age of World Wars Thomas Kühne 21. Colonial Soldiers, Race and Military Masculinity during and beyond World War I and II Richard Smith 22. Sexuality, Sexual Violence and the Military in the Age of the World Wars Regina Mühlhäuser 23. Gender, Peace and the New Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyGlenda Sluga 24. Gender, Demobilization and the Reordering of Society after the First and Second World WarsKaren Hagemann 25. Gendering the Memories of War and Holocaust in Europe and the United States Frank Biess PART IV: FROM THE GLOBALCOLD WAR TO THE CONFLICTS OF THE POST-COLD WAR ERA 26. War and Gender: From the Global Cold War to the Conflicts of the Post-Cold War Era-An OverviewKaren Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose 27. Gender, the Wars of Decolonization and the Decline of Empires after 1945 Raphaëlle Branche 28. Post-1945 Western Militaries, Female Soldiers and Gay and Lesbian Rights Karen Hagemann and D'Ann Campbell 29. Conceptualizing Sexual Violence in Post-Cold War Global Conflicts Dubravka Zarkov 30. The United Nations, Gendered Human Rights and Peacekeeping since 1945Sandra Whitworth 31. Gender, Wars of Globalization and Humanitarian Interventions since the End of the Cold WarKristen P. Williams