Women's Vietnam Era History
A Bibliography From the Collection of Reference
Materials in the Resource Library of the Vietnam Era Museum and Educational Center
“Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam by Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer (2002).
After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese by Lady Borton [former field director of Quaker Service-Vietnam in Hanoi] (1995).
After Sorrow Comes Joy: One Woman‘s Struggle to Bring Hope to Thousands of Children in Vietnam and India by Cherie Clark [director of orphanages in Vietnam and a key player in Operation Babylift] (2000).
American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Winnie Smith [Vietnam veteran Army combat nurse] (1992).
American Women Writers On Vietnam: Unheard Voices: A Selected Annotated Bibliography by Deborah A. Butler (1990).
Another Kind of War Story: Army Nurses Look Back to Vietnam by Barb Deardorf, Diane Du Pont, Linda Goohart, Rhonda Prescott, and Ann Thompson [all Vietnam veteran Army combat nurses] (1993).
Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam 1968-1971 by Iris Mary Roser [civilian social welfare worker in Vietnam during the War] (1991).
“Baby Lift” by LeAnn Thieman, Chicken Soup for the Mother‘s Soul edited by Jack Canfield et al.
(1997), pp. 9-13.
Berkeley in the Sixties (video) (1990).
Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip with James Hayslip [Vietnam veteran] (1994).
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the Military by Randy Shilts (1993).
Don‘t Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam by Susan O‘Neill [Vietnam veteran Army combat nurse] (2001).
Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam by Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao (1998).
From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It by Joan Morrison and Robert K. Morrison (1987).
Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle [the only woman news reporter killed in the Vietnam War] by Roberta Ostroff (1992).
“The Girl Next Door” [music video], Vietnam Experience [VHS Cassette] by Country Joe McDonald (1987)
The Girl in the Picture [biography of Kim Phuc] by Denise Chong (1999).
Harmless As Doves: Witnessing for Peace in Vietnam by Mary Sue Rosenberger [Brethren Volunteer service nurse in Vietnam] (1988).
A Healing: A Journey Back to Vietnam [Vietnam veteran combat nurses return] [video] (1995).
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter [Vietnam veteran Army combat nurse] with Christopher Morgan (1983).
Hostile Fire: The Life & Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane by Philip Bigler (1996).
The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam by Dana Sachs (2000).
In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam by Kathryn Marshall (1987).
Indochine [a novel] by Christie Dickason (1987).
Inside Santa Rita: Prison Memoir of a War Protester by Joan Baez, Sr. (1994).
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Ellen Ladowsky (1997).
Just a Nurse by Janet Kraegel and Mary Kachoyeanos (1989).
Linda McCartney‘s Sixties: Portrait of an Era by Linda McCartney (1992).
Matter of Survival: The “War” Jane Never Saw: Hollywood Actress Working for Pentagon in Vietnam by Chris Noel [Armed Forces Radio and Television spokesperson in Vietnam] (1987).
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision [video] (1995).
Memories of Maggie: Martha Raye: A Legend Spanning Three Years by Noonie Fortin (1995).
No Time For Tears: Vietnam - The Women Who Served [video] (1993).
The Other Mrs. Kennedy [biography of Ethel Skakel (Mrs. Robert F.) Kennedy] by Jerry Oppenheimer (1994).
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (1993).
A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam by Keith Walker (1985).
Potpourri of War: Labors of Love Remembered by Noonie Fortin (1998).
Regret to Inform [video] (2000).
Remembering the Women of the Vietnam War by Lowell Robertssen (1990).
“Santa is Coming to Town” [about the An Loc Orphanage in Vietnam] by Betty Tisdale [former An Loc Orphanage director], A Christmas Filled with Miracles: Inspiring Stories for the Magic of the Season edited by Mary Ellen (2000), pp. 19-21.
A Saigon Party-and Other Vietnam War Short Stories by Diana J. Dell [USO volunteer in Vietnam during the war] (1998).
Snake‘s Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War by Gail Hosking Gilberg [daughter of Vietnam War posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor] (1997).
Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964 by LCDR Bobbi Hovis, NC, USN (Ret.) [Vietnam veteran Navy nurse] (1992).
Thank the Nurse-and Other Nursing Songs [audio CD] by Country Joe McDonald (2002).
The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War by Karen Zeinert (2000).
Vietnam Wives: Facing the Challenges of Live with Veterans Suffering Post-Traumatic Stress by Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D. (1996).
Vietnam Women‘s Memorial: A Commemorative, Julie Agnew Thomas, ed. (1996).
Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War by Lynda Van Devanter and Joan A. Furey [both Vietnam veteran Army combat nurses] (1991).
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman‘s Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts (1990).
A Woman‘s Recovery from the Trauma of War: Twelve Responses from Feminist Therapists and Activists edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Ellen Cole (1986).
Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam by Elizabeth Norman (1995).
Women in Vietnam: The Oral History by Ron Steinman (2000).
Women War Correspondents in the Vietnam War, 1961-1975 by Virginia Elwood-Akers (1988).
A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam by Mary Reynolds Powell [Vietnam veteran Army combat nurse] (2000).