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.

• Preface


• List of Contributors




• Introduction: Gender and the History of War - The Development of the Research


• Karen 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-1780s


• Peter H. Wilson


• 3. War, Culture and Gender in Colonial and Revolutionary North America


• Serena Zabin


• 4. War, Gender and Society in Late Colonial and Revolutionary Spanish America


• Catherine Davies


• 5. Gender, Slavery, War and Violence in and beyond the Age of Revolution


• Elizabeth 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 Societies


• Robert 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 Century


• Marilyn 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 Century


• Glenda Sluga


• 24. Gender, Demobilization and the Reordering of Society after the First and Second World Wars


• Karen 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 Overview


• Karen 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 1945


• Sandra Whitworth


• 31. Gender, Wars of Globalization and Humanitarian Interventions since the End of the Cold War


• Kristen P. Williams

To date, war history has focused predominantly on the efforts of and impact of war on male participants. However, this limited focus disregards the complexity of gendered experiences with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of military culture, examining the varied ideals and practices that have socially differentiated men and women's wartime experiences. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, The Handbook explores cultural representations of war and the interconnectedness of the military with civil society and its transformations.