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Kim, Suzy. Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800–1990. New York: Verso, 1993.

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Lanzona, Vina. Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. 

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Martyn, Elizabeth. The Women’s Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia: Gender and Nation in a New Democracy. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005.

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Terretta, Meredith. Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for Our Nation: The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960. Mandon, Cameroon: Langa Research and Publishing, 2013.

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Thapar-Bjorkert, Suruchi. Women in the National Movement: Unseen Faces, Unheard Voices, 1930–42 (New Delhi: Sage, 2006).

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Amin, Camron Michael. “Globalizing Iranian Feminism, 1910-1950.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1(Winter 2008): 6-30.

“Among Kisan Women,” People’s War 3, no. 46 (May 13, 1945): 2.

Armstrong, Elisabeth. “Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation,” Signs, 41 (2): 2016: 305-331.

Ibid. “Gita, Betty and the Women’s Democratic International Federation: An Internationalist Love Story,” In Faith in the Masses, ed. Tony Pekinovsky, 313-336. New York: International Publishers, 2020.

Ibid. “Here and There: A Story of Women’s Internationalism, 1948-1953,” In The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism, Ed. Su Lin Lewis and Carolien Stolte. Leiden: University of Leiden Press, forthcoming volume.

Ibid. “Indian Peasant Women’s Activism in a Hot Cold War,” in Gender, Sexuality and the Cold War, edited by Philip Muehlenbach, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.

Ibid. “Peace and the Barrel of the Gun in the Internationalist Women’s Movement, 1945-49.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 18, no. 2 (October 2019): 261-277.

Austin, Gwen Marie. “Embattled But Writing Back: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s Contribution to American and International Politics Through her Writings,” 2009, www.cedu.niu.edu/cahe/news/newsDocuments/AALA08_Web/AALA08_Papers/Austin.pdf. Accessed on July 10, 2021.

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Barthelemy, Pascale. “Macoucou in Beijing. The International Arena: a Political Resource for African Women in the 1940s and 1950s. Le Mouvement Social. 2:255(2016): 17-33.

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Berger, Iris. “Decolonizing Women’s Activism: Africa in the Transformation of International Women’s Movements.”In Women and Social Movements, International, ed. Tom Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, online.

Bonfiglioli, Chiara. Revolutionary Networks: Women’s Political and Social Activism in Cold War Italy and Yugoslavia (1945-1957). PhD Dissertation, University of Utrecht, 2012.

Bonfiglioli, Chiara “Women’s Political and Social Activism in the Early Cold War Era. The Case of Yugoslavia,” Aspasia 8 (2014): 1-25.

Broussan, Adeline. Grassroots Diplomacy, Warrior Femininity, and Intersectional Sisterhood during the French and American Wars in Vietnam (1945-1975). PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2021.

Ibid. “‘Resistantes’ Against the Colonial Order: Women’s Grassroots Diplomacy During the French War in Vietnam (1945-1954).” In The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism. Ed. Su Lin Lewis and Carolien Stolte, Leiden: University of Leiden Press, forthcoming.

Chakravartty, Gargi. “Emergence of Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti in the Forties – Calcutta Chapter,” in The Stormy Decades: Calcutta. Ed. Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, 177-203. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2015.

Chase, Michelle. “‘Hands Off Korea!’ Women’s Internationalist Solidarity and Peace Activism in Early Cold War Cuba.” Journal of Women’s History 32, no. 3 (2020): 64-88.

Chen, Martha Alter “Engendering World Conferences: The International Women’s Movement and the United States.” Third World Quarterly, 16 (3), 1995: 477-493.

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Coulibaly, Celestine Ouezzin. “We Women of the Upper Volta (1961).” In Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel, eds. Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw, 225-227. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2005.

Daskalova, Krassimira. “How Should We Name the ‘Women-Friendly’ Actions of State Socialism?” Aspasia, Volume 1, 2007: 214-219.

de Haan, Francisca. “Hoffnungen auf eine bessere Welt: Die fruhen Jahre der Internationalen Demokratischen Frauenfoderation (IDFF/WIDF) (1945-1950).” Feministische Studien. 27(November, 2009): 241-257.

Ibid. ed., FORUM “Gendering the Cold War in the Region,” Aspasia 8 (2014):162–190.

Ibid. “Continuing Cold War Paradigms in the Western Historiography of Transnational Women’s Organisations: The Case of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF),” Women’s History Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2010: 547-573.

Ibid. “Eugenie Cotton, Pak Chong-Ae, and Claudia Jones: Rethinking Transnational Feminism and International Politics.” Journal of Women’s History 25, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 174-189.

Ibid. “The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York,” in The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties. Between Protest and Nation-Building, ed. Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, and Joanna Waley-Cohen, Routledge: 2018: 230–42.

Ibid. “The Vietnam Activities of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF).” In Protest in the Vietnam War Era, ed. Alexander Sedlmaier. London: Palgrave, 2022, 51-82.

Ibid. “The Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda and Contributions, 1945-1991,” inWomen and Social Movements International—1840 to Present (WASI) digital archive, edited by T. Dublin and K. Kish Sklar, 2012.

Ibid. “Writing Inter/Transnational History: The Case of Women’s Movements and Feminisms.” In International History in Theory and Practice: Traditions and Perspectives, ed. B Haider-Wilson, W. Mueller and W.D. Godsey, 501-536. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2017.

Ibid. editor and Introduction, FORUM “After Ten Years: Communism and Feminism Revisited,” Aspasia 10(2016): 102–168

Donert, Celia. “From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights: Gender, Violence and International Law in the Women’s International Democratic Federation Mission to North Korea, 1951.” Contemporary European History 25, no. 2 (2016): 313-333.

Donert, Celia. “Showcasing the welfare dictatorship: International Women’s Year and the Weltkongress Der Frauen, East Berlin 1975.” In Sozioalistische Staatlichkeit, ed. Joachin von Puttkamer and Jana Ostercamp. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2012: 143-160.

Donert, Celia. “Women’s Rights in Cold War Europe: Disentangling Feminist Histories,” Past and Present (2013) Supplement 8: 179-202.

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Efimova, Larisa. “Did the Soviet Union Instruct Southeast Asian Communists to Revolt? New Russian Evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, no. 3(October, 2009): 449-469.

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Fleischmann, Ellen. “The Emergence of the Palestinian Women’s Movement, 1929-39.” Journal of Palestine Studies 30: no. 3 (Spring 2000): 16-32.

Foll-Luciani, Pierre-Jean. “‘I Wish I Had Been a Bomb to Explode.’ Algerian Communist Militants Between Sexual Assignments and Subversions of Gender Roles (1944-1962).” The Social Movement. 225 (April-June 2016): 35-55.

Funk, Nanette. “A very tangled knot: Official state socialist women’s organizations, women’s agency and feminism in Eastern European state socialism” European Journal of Women’s Studies, (21) 4, 344-360.

French, John and Mary Lynn Pederson. “Women and Working-Class Mobilization in Postwar Sao Paulo, 1945-1948.” Latin American Research Review 24, no. 3 (1989): 99-125.

Funk, Nanette. “A Very Tangled Knot: Official State Socialist Women’s Organizations, Women’s Agency and Feminism in Eastern European State Socialist Feminism,” European Journal of Women’s Studies 21:4(2014): pp. 344-360.

Gaiduk, Ilya V. 2009. “Soviet Cold War Strategy and Prospects of Revolution in Asia,” in Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962. Edited by Christopher Goscha and Christian Ostermann, 123-136. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Ghodsee, Kristen. “Rethinking State Socialist Mass Women’s Organizations: The Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement and the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975–1985,” Journal of Women’s History, (24)4, Winter 2012: 49-73.

Ghodsee, Kristen and Julia Mead, "What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women?" Catalyst, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2018: 101-133.

Ghodsee, Kristen and Kateřina Lišková. "Bumbling Idiots or Evil Masterminds? Challenging Cold War Stereotypes about Women, Sexuality and State Socialism," Filozofija i društvo, Volume 27, Broj 3 (2016): 489-503

Ghodsee, Kristen. “Untangling the Knot: A Response to Nanette Funk,” European Journal of Women’s Studies, March 2015.

Ibid. “Research Note: The Historiographical Challenges of Exploring Second World-Third World Alliances in the International Women’s Movement.” Global Social Policy 14, no. 2(2014): 244-264.

Glassburner, Bruce. “Economic Policy-Making in Indonesia.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 10, no. 2(January, 1962): 113-133.

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Bits of Freedom: Demystifying women’s activism under state socialism in Poland and Georgia,” Feminist Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2017: 141-168

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Bits of Freedom: Demystifying Women’s Activism under State Socialism in Poland and Georgia,” in: Feminist Studies, 43:1, 2017,  pp. 141-168.

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Bringing Second World In: Conservative Revolution(s), Socialist Legacies and Transnational Silences in the Trajectories of Polish Feminism“ in: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37:2, 2012, pp. 385-411. 

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Bringing the Second World In: Conservative Revolution(s), Socialist Legacies, and Transnational Silences in the Trajectories of Polish Feminism.” Signs, Vol. 37, No. 2: 2012.

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Overcoming the Delay Paradigm: New Approaches to Socialist Women’s Activism in Georgia and Poland” in: “Gender in Georgia”, eds. Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston, Bergham Books, 2017, pp. 61-77.

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Hemery, Daniel. “Decolonizing France: The ‘Indochinese Syndrome’ (1946-1954)” In Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution, ed. Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2014, 347-363.

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Ibid. “’For Their Freedoms’: The Anti-imperialist and International Feminist Activity of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria.” Women’s Studies International Forum. 32(2009): 51-59.

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Khan, Nighat Said. “Up Against the State: The Women’s Movement in Pakistan and its Implications for the Global Women’s Movement.” In Politics, Activism and Vision: Local and Global Challenges, (ed.) Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles, Margaret H. McFadden, 79-96. London and New York: Zed Books, 2004.

Khan, Yasmine. “Sex in an Imperial War Zone: Transnational Encounters in Second World War India,” History Workshop Journal 73, no. 1 (2012): 240–58.

Kheng, Cheah Boon. “The Communist Insurgency in Malaysia, 1948-90: Contesting the Nation-State and Social Change.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 11, no. 1 (June 2009): 132-52.

Kim, Suzy. “Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 52, no. 4(October 2010): 742-767.

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