The following books are recommended by the Institute's director, Dr. G. Kurt Piehler, to those interesting in learning more about women's involvement in the Second World War. This list is geared toward middle and high school students, undergraduates, and the general public.
- Campbell, D’Ann. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
- De Pauw, Linda Grant. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women and War from Prehistory to the Present. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
- Earley, Charity Adams. One’s Woman’s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC. College Station: Texas & M University Press, 1989.
- Escobedo, Elizabeth R. From Coverall to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Honey, Maureen. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
- Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
- Knaff, Donna. Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American Popular Graphic Art. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
- Meyer, Leisa D. Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women’s Army Corps During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
- Moore, Brenda L. To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II. New York; London: NYU Press, 1996.
- Threat, Charissa J. Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army’s Nurse Corps. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Tuttle, William M. “Daddy’s Gone to War”: The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
