Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Announcements: New Publications:

Announcements:
NEW PUBLICATIONS
(added in 2025)

I. A r t i c l e s

1. Blogs

Added: August 1, 2025

[Info] Hellriegel, Lisa. »‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Inter-War Period Tell Us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence.« German Historical Institute London Blog. (June 25, 2025).

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Sun, Yixin. »Visualizing Trauma Memory Trough Surreal Techniques.« animationstudies 2.0 (May 20, 2025).


2. Collected Volumes

Added: September 1, 2025

[Info] Bai, Jian. »Indelible Trauma: The Case of Geraldine in The Round HouseProceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2025). Edited by Sun Jing et al. Paris 2025: 117-123.

[Info] Bhattacharjee, Bhaswati. »The Muffled Memories: Tracing the Traumatic History of the Comfort Women of World War II through Jan Ruff O’Herne’s Memoir Fifty Years of SilenceBetween Trauma and Memory: Reflections Beyond Boundaries. Edited by Neha Soman et al. Singapore 2025: 3-16.

[Info] Chandra, Giti. »Why do white women get raped in Raj Nostalgia literature? Violence, gender, and the decolonisation of trauma.« Decolonial Feminisms, Decolonising Feminisms: Transnational Perspectives. Edited by Deevia Bhana et al. London 2026: 188-202.

[Info] Dyachkov, Ilya V., et al. »Issues of the Historical Past in Current Relations Between Japan and the Countries of the Korean Peninsula.« Japan’s Historical Disputes with Neighboring States: Russian Perspectives. Edited by Dmitry Streltsov. London 2025: 108-141.

[Info] Ford, Angela. »Sex for Life: Conditions that Necessitated Sexual Barter in the Holocaust.« A Space of Her Own: Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dragana Stojanović et al. Belgrade 2025: 25-39.

[Info] Perminova, Vera A. »The Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taiwan as a Problem of the Historical Past.« Japan’s Historical Disputes with Neighboring States: Russian Perspectives. Edited by Dmitry Streltsov. London 2025: 75-107,

[Info] Streltsov, Dmitry. »“Apology Diplomacy” in Japan’s Relations With East Asian Countries.« Japan’s Historical Disputes with Neighboring States: Russian Perspectives. Edited by Dmitry Streltsov. London 2025: 142-161.

[Info] Svirčev, Žarka. »Women’s Holocaust Narratives in the Yugoslav Jewish Almanac.« A Space of Her Own: Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dragana Stojanović et al. Belgrade 2025: 151-170.

Added: August 1, 2025

[Info] Bildhauer, Bettina. »Sexualised Violence by a Woman against a Boy: Upsetting the Binary Gender Hierarchy in Of the Seven MastersReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 129-146.

[Info] Harris, Carissa M. »‘Resistence Makyng’: Resisting Rape in Premodern England and Scotland.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 37-53.

[Info] Price, Basil A. »Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla sagaReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 93-107.

[Info] Robertson, Elizabeth. »Afterword: Ambiguities of Consent and Forms of Resistance to Rape.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 289-296.

[Info] Sgouros, Timi. »Shades of Coercion in Medieval Exempla: Adaptations of ‘The Nun who Saw the World’.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 255-270.

[Info] Taylor, Emmet. »Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 147-161.

[Info] Watt, Caitlin G. »‘Thy Womb Will Avenge Thee’: Olympias, Revenge, and Consent in Medieval Alexander the Great Narratives.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 271-287.

[Info] Wilson, Alexander, et al. »‘Sa vesteüre ala saisir, | Par tant la cuide retenir’: Clothing and Coercion in the Bathing Scenes of Medieval Romance.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 201-216.

[Info] Wilson, Rowan. »‘You do not get to consent to yourself, even if you might deserve the chance’: Nature’s Coercion and Transgender Volition in Le Roman de Silence« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 73-91.

[Info] Wood, Lucas. »‘That love should be love’s recompense’: Courtly Seduction, Compulsory Compassion, and Coercive Desire in Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 55-71.

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Ong, Nicole. »Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the TongueReading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Edited by Yiru Lim et al. New York 2025: 178-190.

[Info] Saxena, Anisha. »Sexual Violence in Premodern South Asian Literature: Unsavory Heritage.« The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender. Edited by Jenna C. Ashton. London 2025: 201-211.

Added: June 1, 2025

[Info] Aretz, Sabine E. »“We have the power now”: Notions of (Em)Power(ment) and Solidarity in Documentaries of the USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Scandal.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 26-39.

[Info] Beliveau, Ralph, et al. »Introduction: The #MeToo Lens and the Television Industry.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 1-8.

[Info] Burrell, Erin K. »She Married Him Anyways: Exploring Sexual Violence in Mad Men#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 65-76.

[Info] Coopey, Louise. »A Song of Virtue and Vice: The Impact of Class on Rape Narratives in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019).« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 40-52.

[Info] Eddy, Zoë A. »“Some were prostitutes … others were ordinary women”: Memories, Mediation, and Sexual Violence in the True Crime Genre.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 9-25.

[Info] Froude, Eve. »Watching Water: Waves of Violence and #MeToo.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 90-100.

[Info] Hansen, Hannah. »“I’m as innocent as any straight, middle-aged man there is”: #MeToo, Rape Culture, and Masculinity in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 77-89.

[Info] Jenkins, Joy, et al. »“A gut punch to the soul”: Fan Responses to Rape Depictions in Popular TV Shows.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 153-172.

[Info] Johinke, Rebecca. »“One woman’s terrorist is another woman’s liberator”: Dietland, #MeToo, and Rape Revenge.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 111-122.

[Info] Konrad, Tatiana. »Debunking Rape Myths: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and #MeToo in Unbelievable#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 53-64.

[Info] Lehman, Katherine J. »From “Good Girls” to Vigilantes: Feminist Representation and Production in #MeToo Television.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 123-134.

[Info] Reynolds, Rachel R., et al. »Television Production, #MeToo, and Gendered Challenges in Representing Rape.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 135-152.

[Info] Salman, Doddy, et al. »News Narrative of The May 1998 Tragedy: Comparative Analysis of Editorials in Kompas, Republika, and Suara Karya (1999-2008).« Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2024). Edited by Septyanto G. Prakoso et al. Paris 2025: 138-146.

[Info] Swanson, Alexandra. »“Bluebeard’s Castle”: Reconsidering Romance and Revenge in Netflix’s You#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 101-110.

Added: May 1, 2025

[Info] Alban, Gilian M.E. »Bernardine Evaristo, from Novel to Memoir: The Hu/Woman Self and Other Seen in Manifesto and Girl, Woman, Other.« Edebiyat, Dil ve Kültürde Insan - Disiplinerarasi ve Kültürlerarasi Okumular Istanbul 2025: 208-220.

[Info] Gregersen, Andreas B., et al. »“It is like night and day”: The Disruptive Development of Danish Feminism in the Light of the #MeToo Movement.« Feminist Movements in Time and Space: A European Perspective. Edited by Giada B. Rosenkranz et al. Cham 2025: 39-65.

[Info] Klein, Renate. »„Tatort Campus“: Ergebnisse von fast 70 Jahren Forschung zu Gewalt- und Missbrauchserfahrungen an amerikanischen Hochschulen.« Gewaltfrei arbeiten und leben: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Theorien, empirische Erkenntnisse und Handlungsoptionen. Edited by Ruth Abramowski et al. Baden-Baden 2025: 125-148.

Added: April 1, 2025

[Info] Bildhauer, Bettina. »Sexualised Violence by a Woman against a Boy: Upsetting the Binary Gender Hierarchy in Of the Seven MastersReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 129-146.

[Info] Bonsall, Jane, et al. »Introduction: Why Reconsider Medieval Consent and Coercion? Why Now?« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 17-34.

[Info] Bonsall, Jane, et al. »Comparative Approaches to Men’s Experiences of Sexual Coercion: Reading across Multi-Text Manuscripts.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 111-127.

[Info] Delmolino, Grace. »Consent Beyond Language: Disability, Ambiguity, and the Sex Lives of Chickens and Nuns in Decameron 3.1.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025.

[Info] Nam, Subin. »The Forgotten Agent: Focusing on the ‘Comfort Woman’ Bae Bong-gi and her Faded History.« Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents. Edited by Mònica Ginés-Blasi. Berlin 2025: 73-92.

[Info] Saha, Debadrita. »Women’s (Absent) Consent and (Culturally Sanctioned) Coercion in Medieval Bengali Literature: Chandimangal and SatiMaynaReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 235-253.

[Info] Schmueckle, Mara. »Writing Consent: Notaries and Gendered Narratives in Late Medieval Scotland.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 219-234.

[Info] Zygogianni, Maria. »Her Garden: Consent and the hortus conclusus in The Knight’s Tale and The Isle of Ladies« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 181-199.

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Clites, Brian. »Clergy Sexual Abuse.« The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States sind 1775. Edited by Cara L. Burnidge. New York 2025: 472-481.

[Info] Karmakar, Goutam. »Narrating Rape and Resistance: Tracing the Trajectories of Birangona in Rizia Rahman’s Letters of BloodNarratives of Loss and Longing: Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia. Edited by Nukhbah Taj Langah et al. London 2025: 103-122.

[Info] Plieth, Carla. »Drohende Finger, dunkle Schatten und trostspendende Kuscheltiere: Zur Visualisierung sexualisierter Gewalt im Bilderbuch.« Körper erzählen: Embodiment in Kinder- und Jugendmedien. Edited by Andre Kagelmann et al. Berlin 2024: 179-195.

Added: January 1, 2025

[Info] Aschmann, Birgit, et al. »Von Ehre und Ängsten: Vorschläge zu einer integrierten Emotionsgeschichte illegitimer Gewalt in militärischen Gewaltkulturen.« »When you catch one kill him slowly«: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Edited by Birgit Aschmann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2024: 247-277.

[Info] Bae, Judy J. »Speaking the Unspeakable in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman.« Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Edited by Yiru Lim et al. New York 2025: 167-177.

[Info] Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. »Producing the Vampire: Neo-Victorian Afterlife of the “Un-Dead” and Contemporary Sexual Crime in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma.« Women in Contemporary Indian Films and Media: Representations and Responses. Edited by Aysha Viswamohan. London 2025: 168-183.

[Info] Cerqueira, Carla, et al. »(De)constructing masculinities in newsmagazines in the #MeToo era.« Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. Edited by Inês Amaral. London 2025: 35-53.

[Info] Ermakov, Otto. »Von »rasenden Kriegsheeren« und »guter Manneszucht«: Zur Gewaltkultur der russischen und österreichischen Armee im Siebenjährigen Krieg (1756–1763).« »When you catch one kill him slowly«: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Edited by Birgit Aschmann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2024: 157-181.

[Info] Füssel. Marian. »»Orders is so very Strick’d to keep every thing regular«: Illegitime Gewalt der britischen Armee während des Siebenjährigen Krieges (1756–1763).« »When you catch one kill him slowly«: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Edited by Birgit Aschmann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2024: 129-156.

[Info] Gahlen, Gundula. »Illegitime Gewalt und militärische Gewaltkulturen: Die französische und österreichische Armee während der Revolutions- und Napoleonischen Kriege (1792–1815).« »When you catch one kill him slowly«: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Edited by Birgit Aschmann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2024: 183-216.

[Info] Wang, W. Michelle. » Fictional Testimonies: Narrative Structures of Resistance in White Chrysanthemum and How We DisappearedReading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World Edited by Yiru Lim et al. New York 2025: 25-37.

[Info] Zinger, Evgen. »Brutale (Vor)Reiter? Illegitime militärische Gewalt der Kosaken im Ersten Weltkrieg (1914–1917).« »When you catch one kill him slowly«: Militärische Gewaltkulturen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Edited by Birgit Aschmann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2024: 315-342.


3. Encyclopedias

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4. Journals

Added: September 1, 2025

[Info] Aitazzn, Fatima Z. »La dualité de l’amour dans L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre.« Complexus 2 (2025): 221-235.

[Info] Basu, Koyel. »Sexual violence as a smokescreen on war crimes and human rights violations.« International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies 12 (2025): 230-243.

[Info] Beccarelli, Marine. »Occulter la réalité du viol: Une histoire de la radio et de la télévision publiques françaises (1970-1990).« Cahiers du Genre No. 78 (2025): 71-97.

[Info] Bisevac, Andjela. »From Tartan to Turmoil: Sensory Engagement and Historical Narratives in Alexander McQueen’s “Highland Rape”.« dObra[s] No. 44 (2025): 106-120.

[Info] Bourne, Paul. A., et al. »Macroeconomic Determinants of Sexual Violence: An ARIMAX Approach to Rape in Jamaica, 2001-2023.« International Journal of Economics & Finance Research & Applications 9 (2025): 25-46.

[Info] Calabresi, Elisabetta. »“Be a man”: Male unemployment and rape in Mexico.« Review of Economics of the Household (June 30, 2025).

[Info] Cooper, Mariah L. »Re-Reading Medieval Cases of Raptus: Group Rape and Homosociality in England.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 31-57.

[Info] Dadon, Kotel. »Grijeh i kazna: Književna analiza božanske kazne i odgojnih neuspjeha u Abšalomovoj trilogiji (2 Sam 13–15).« Nova prisutnost 23 (2025): 243-262.

[Info] Dayan, Hava, et al. »Nassar’s sexual abuse of Olympic athletes: Nassar’s sexual abuse of Olympic athletes.« Journal of Gender-Based Violence (July 25, 2025).

[Info] Devi, N.K. Sandhya. »Unweaving the accustomed silence: A study of comfort women using How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee (2020).« Journal of Gender-Based Violence (April 11, 2025).

[Info] Devi, Shamurailatpam G. »Representation of Female Characters in Shashi Deshpande's Novels: Small Remedies and The Binding Vine.« Anusandhanvallari No. 1 2(2025): 75-80.

[Info] Dreij, Carla. »Le continuum des violences sexuelles dans les films libanais (2005-2019): Une lecture intersectionnelle.« Les Cahiers des Jeunes Chercheurs (2025).

[Info] Elia, Nada. »The Israel Exemption.« Journal of Palestine Studies 54 (2025): 66-74.

[Info] Embaye, Tsegalem K. »Empowering Voice: Overcoming Stigma to Enhance Recovery for Wartime Rape Survivors in Ethiopia's Tigray Region.« Mekelle University Journal of Political Science and Strategic Studies 3 (2025): 46-70.

[Info] Givisiez, L.G.V.B., et al. »Eufemismo como estratégia: O projeto de engenharia conceitual do dossiê Comfort WomenPerspectiva Filosófica 52 (2025): 1-30.

[Info] Hansson, Karin, et al. »Sexual Harassment as Reification: #MeToo in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Sweden.« Gender, Work & Organization (August 1, 2025).

[Info] Herzig, Tamar. »Contending with interreligious rape in the 16th and 17th centuries: Social realities and literary representations.« European Journal of Women’s Studies (2025).

[Info] Jung, Grace. »Feminist Realism in K-Dramas: My Mister and Something in the RainJournal of Cinema and Media Studies 64 (2025): 277-299.

[Info] Nausia Pimoulier, Amaia. »«De palabra y no de corazón»: Las criadas y el estupro ante los tribunales civiles navarros en los siglos XVI y XVII.« Memoria y Civilización: Anuario de Historia 28 (2025): 73-114.

[Info] Osokin, Mikhail. »Male rape, female dominance and new sexual economics in GereonPorn Studies (June 19, 2025).

[Info] Pasau, Agustinus B., et al. »Dosa yang Mewarisi Luka: Penyimpangan Seksual sebagai Dampak Pelecehan dalam Kejadian 19:8.« Formosa Journal of Applied Sciences 4 (2025): 1345-1360.

[Info] Paul, Shraman. »Shattered Lives, Unbroken Spirits: Women’s Resilience and Recovery in Lalithambika Antharjanam’s “A Leaf in the Storm” and Manik Bandopadhyay’s “The Final Solution”.« International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research 7 (2025): 1-8.

[Info] Ruffio, Claire. »Juger au cas par cas ? L’influence du droit sur l’individualisation du viol dans la presse écrite française (1980-2020).« Cahiers du Genre No. 78 (2025): 99-128.

[Info] Torres Cendales, Leidy J. »Cuerpos jerarquizados, violencias irrelevantes: El estupro por la fuerza en Santafé y Tunja a principios del siglo XVII.« Fronteras de la Historia 30 (2025): 19-48.

[Info] Wiesner, Reinhard. »Ergebnisbericht „Helmut Kentlers Wirken in der Berliner Kinder- und Jugendhilfe“: Ein rechtlicher Blick.« unsere jugend 77 (2025): 261-266.

[Info] Zhouting. »Heterotopian Narratives and Audience Subjectivity in Korea’s Post-War Urban Commemorative Spaces: A Case Study of the Seoul War and Women’s Human Rights Museum.« 강원문화연구 51 (2025): 229-261.

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Bobikiewicz, Lilian. »Memory, Technology and Reconciliation in the Case of the ‘Halmonis’.« The Grimshaw Review of International Affairs 2 (2025): 166-180.

[Info] Dalino, Candice. »René Magrittes ‘Les jours gigantesques’: Un féministe avant la lettre?« Pro Memorie. 27 (2025): 134-174.

[Info] Divya, R., et al. »Sexual harassment complaints across BSE100 companies: A longitudinal dataset (2013–2023).« BMC Research Notes. 18(227) (May 22, 2025).

[Info] Eriksson. Anna-Karin. »Exploiting humiliation: Politics as history in the ‘comfort women’ issue.« Feminist Theory (June 5, 2025).

[Info] Goun, Kim. »참상을 기록하는 이미지와 구성적 기억: ‘위안부’ 기억과 영상 매체의 변화를 중심으로.« 문학과 영상 26 (2025): 7-36.

[Info] Hao, Xiaoyang, et al. »Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo.« Women's History Review (April 22, 2025).

[Info] Kennedy, Allan. »Prosecuting Rape in Seventeenth-century Scotland.« Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. 45 (2025): 48-67.

[Info] Miller, Zoë. »The Radical Potential of Eliot’s Unstable Rape Metaphors: A Re-Reading of the Typist’s Assault.« The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 7 (2025): 155-172.

[Info] Reeves, Audrey, et al. »Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Gender, politics and memory at war museums.« Journal of Gender Studies (May 15, 2025).

[Info] Zhu, Yujie. »Curating War Memory under Constraint: The Chinese ‘Comfort Women’ Museum and the Politics of Remembrance.« International Journal of Cultural Policy (June 4, 2025).

Added: June 1, 2025

[Info] Aquino, Catherine L. »‘To remember everything, to remember always’: The writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of DestinyWomen's History Review (April 29, 2025).

[Info] Barnes, Elizabeth M. »Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South.« Civil War History 71 (2025): 9-31.

[Info] Bělehradová, Andrea, et al. »“Dark Corners”: Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia.« Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (April 22, 2025).

[Info] Böhm, Maya, et al. »Erfahrungen in DDR-Kinderheimen: Moralische Verletzung, Scham und (komplexe) Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung.« Trauma & Gewalt 19 (2025): 114-124.

[Info] Cheng, Fan-Ting. »臺灣慰安婦劇場: 論同黨劇團《燃燒的蝴蝶》之內褶交織與戲史轉譯 .« 戲劇研究 35 (2025): 31-60.

[Info] Culas, Sofia. »Women as the 'Other': The erasure of comfort women within Malaysia's National Narrative.« Teaching History 59 (2025): 42-48.

[Info] Dash, Samikhya, et al. »Rape, Trauma, and Romanticized Recuperation: An Evaluation of Omung Kumar’s BhoomiQuarterly Review of Film and Video (May 6, 2025).

[Info] Demets, Lisa. »Moral Injury and the Implicit or Explicit Language of Sexual Violence during Warfare in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Chronicles.« Renaissance and Reformation 48 (2025).

[Info] Ettawy, Mohamed. »Analysis of Crime and Accident Coverage in Egyptian Press in Late Mubarak’s Rule.« Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 18 (2025): 64-110.

[Info] Evans, Bonnie. »Rape and Revenge (2017): The male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film.« Continuum (May 2, 2025).

[Info] Greer, Pierce. »Lost out at Sea on “Floating Palaces”: Examining the Overlooked Tale of the Ocean Liner Stewardess, 1890–1919.« Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 11 (2025): 226-248.

[Info] Smith, Sydney L. »Beyond the Weapon of War: Rethinking Gendered Narratives of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.« Journal of Public and International Affairs (April 23, 2025).

[Info] Tarachand, Ajwani N., et al. »Psychology of Dystopian Mass: A Study of Sowmya Rajendran’s The LessonInternational Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10 (2025): 247-253.

[Info] Tsukamoto, Sachiyo. »Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects.« Women's History Review (April 28, 2025).

[Info] Velumani, Sandya, et al. »The Intersection of Masculinity and Rape Culture: Studying the Novel The Temple Bar Woman in Feminist Lens.« International Journal of Research Culture Society 9 (2025): 80-83.

Added: May 1, 2025

[Info] Cetin, Selcuk, et al. »Medicolegal evaluation of violence against women in the Ottoman Empire with the light of qadi registry records between the 17th and 20th centuries.« Medicine Science 14 (2025): 248-260.

[Info] Conter, Rafael. »Animais Assassinos: As Fronteiras do Filme Natural Horror.« Ilha do Desterro 77 (2024).

[Info] Dadon, Kotel. »Književna i komparativna analiza pripovijesti o Amnonu i Tamari (2 Sam 13,1-22).« Nova prisutnost 23 (2025): 37-59.

[Info] Dória Cardoso Gois, Yasmim, et al. »Fatores associados à recorrência do estupro na população brasileira: um estudo transversal, 2018-2022.« Caderno Pedogógico 22(5) (2025).

[Info] Ferrari, Carlyn E. »(Re)Making Generations: Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Black Women’s Ecologies.« ISLE (February 20, 2025).

[Info] Gewirtz-Meydan, Ateret, et al. »Associations between media exposure to sexual violence during the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict and sexual, psychological, and relational well-being.« Journal of Sexual Aggression (April 2, 2025).

[Info] Gümüş, Florentina, et al. »Medea as a rape narrative: Edward Bond’s Dea.« European Journal of Women's Studies 32 (2025): 7-19.

[Info] He, Zhiyan, et al. »Sexual violence in the Nanjing massacre: Emotional narratives and cultural trauma.« Violence (March 28, 2025).

[Info] Hoose, Anahita. »The god with a thousand vulvas: Heroic feminisation in ancient India and Greece.« Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2025).

[Info] Romano, Carman. »Rape and Revenge in the Homeric Hymn to AphroditeArethusa 58 (2025): 75-100.

[Info] Westendorf, Jasmine-Kim, et al. »Elusive accountability: Governing sexual exploitation and abuse under the grip of sexual violence in war.« International Affairs 101 (2025): 603-622.

[Info] Wu, Jinyi. »A Reflection of Gender Inequality: The Analysis of Bridget Jones's Diary through the Gender Perspective.« International Journal of Linguistics, Literature & Translation 8 (2025): 11-15.

Added: April 1, 2025

[Info] Ahn, Hakyoung. »Empowerment and Exploitation: Sexual Dynamics in Han Kang’s The VegetarianTulsa Studies in Women's Literature 43 (2024): 277-293.

[Info] Cheema, Maha. »David Lurie’s Trial in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) as an Allegory of South Africa’s ‘Truth & Reconciliation Commission’.« Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies 3 (2025): 667-685.

[Info] Friedrich, Markus. »Exploring the Darker Sides of Early Modern Jesuit History: Ulrich Lehner’s Investigations of Jesuit Sexual Abuse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.« Journal of Jesuit Studies 12 (2025): 143-162.

[Info] Mahon, Jane, et al. »Unveiling the Shadows of the Perversion Files: Analyzing Techniques of Neutralization Among Boy Scout Leaders in Child Sexual Abuse Cases.« Deviant Behavior (February 23 2025).

[Info] Owonikoko, Saheed B. »Trend and pattern analysis of incidents of rape in Adamawa State, Northeastern Nigeria, 2010–2020.« African Identities (February 20, 2025).

[Info] Prameswari, Ni P.L.M., et al. »The Discourse of Resistance Against Patriarchal Culture in Short Stories by Three Balinese Women Writers.« Mudra 40 (2025): 95-110.

[Info] Sree, Raj. »Traumascapes, Temporality and Memory in Trauma Narratives.« The Academic 3 (2025): 965-970.

[Info] Thiede, Barbara, et al. »Feminism, Bible, Texts and Terror: A Feminist Reflection.« Feminist Encounters 9(1) (2025).

[Info] Vaidhya. Prafulkumar P. »Social Issues of Women in The Dark Holds No Terrors and That Long Silence.« Amoghvarta 4 (2024-25): 145-152.

[Info] Xu, Jocelyn. »Comfort stations and their legacy: Exhibitions of negative heritage.« Museum Management and Curatorship (February 24, 2025).

Added: March 1, 2025

[Info] Ayoub, Cristiane N.A. »Agostinho e a injustiça da lei e das formas jurídicas quanto ao estupro de mulheres.« Revista de Filosofia Aurora 37 (2025).

[Info] Bergner, Gwen. »Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am LegendModern Fiction Studies 70 (2024): 609-632.

[Info] O’Neill, Kevin L. »Islands, Enclaves, and the Offshoring of Clerical Sexual Abuse.« Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2025).

[Info] Stetz, Margaret. »Documenting War Crimes Onstage in Kyo Choi’s The Apology.« Humanities Bulletin 7 (2024): 158-166..

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Albert, Corinna. »Vergewaltigte Körper in María de Zayas’ Desengaños amorosos (1647).« HeLix 17 (2024): 65-89.

[Info] Dembruk, Sofina. »„[Q]uant je ne pourrois avoir de vous que les os“: Verfügungsmomente über den weiblichen Körper in Marguerite de Navarres Heptaméron (1559).« HeLix 17 (2024): 13-38.

[Info] Dicks, Tamia. »From Victim to Victor: A Woman’s Journey of Trauma and Agency in Francois Smith’s The Camp Whore.« Imbizo (November 6, 2024).

[Info] Dzierżyc-Horniak, Anna. »Jane Jin Kaisen’s Works as the Practice of Exploring History, Memory and Trauma.« Art Inquiry 26 (2024): 259-285.

[Info] Hermawan, Erwin. »Research Trends On Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse: A 20 Years Bibliometric Analysis.« International Journal of Educational Research & Social Sciences 5 (2024): 1066-1071.

[Info] Jabir, Saman, et al. »A Critical Discourse Analysis of Reactionary Twitter Posts on the Motorway Rape Incident (September 09, 2020) in Pakistan.« Journal of Regional Studies Review 3 (2024): 72-86.

[Info] Mary, Elena. »Strangled Women: Popular Culture, ‘Conservative Modernity’ and Erotic Violence in Britain, c.1890–1950.« Cultural and Social History (Novemer 5, 2024).

[Info] Monballyu, Jos. »De vervolging van verkrachtingen en aanrandingen van de eerbaarheid voor het Hof van Assisen van het Leiedepartement/de provincie West-Vlaanderen, 1811-1867« Pro Memorie 26 (2024): 229-261.

[Info] Moon, Jihie. »Silenced Voices to Multidirectional Memory: Colonial history of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and the Politics of Memory - Focusing on the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949), Indonesian ‘comfort women’ and the ‘Njai’ of the KNIL.« 동남아연구 34 (2024): 79-120.

[Info] Murawska-Muthesius, Katarzyna. »Imaging Kyivan Rus’ then and now, or how to look at Antin Losenko’s Vladmir and Rognedakunsttexte.de No. 3 (2024).

[Info] Nattermann, India W. »Unveiling Gestures in Colluthus’s 'Abduction of Helen': 'Aidos', Female Sexuality, and Rape.« Journal of Cognitive Historiography 9 (2024): 51-69.

[Info] Perdigão, Hêmille. »Para cada silêncio traumático, a poesia de uma canção: As Performances da canção Moon River nos filmes de Almodóvar e Blake Edwards.« Muiraquitã 12 (2024): 213-237.

[Info] Sharma, Nancy. »The Female Body as a Site of Revenge: Understanding the Predicament of Deshpande’s “A Liberated Woman” at the Intersection of Class and Gender.« SARE 61 (2024): 103-121.

[Info] Shearn , Samuel. »Troststrategien bei Seneca und Augustin: Anregungen für die Systematische Theologie.« Hermeneutische Blätter 30 (2024): 50-76.

[Info] Sola Gratia, Ketia »Emerging the Submerged Realities of Mass Rape in the News of May 1998 Riot.« MediaTor 17 (2024): 270-285.

[Info] Tovar Pulido, Raquel. »El delito de violación en la Codificación Penal española de los siglos XIX-XX: Una approximación a su análisis jurisprudencial.« GLOSSAE 21 (2024): 453-472.

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[Info] Asirvatham, Sulochana. »Alexander the Lynkestian and the Thracians at Thebes: A Note on the Tale of Timokleia.« Karanos Supplement I (2024): 185-193.

[Info] Bärtschi, Arnold. »Auf den Spuren von Homer und Ammôn Kasacz: Die geopoetische Meeresdarstellung in der Odyssee und der Graphic Novel Les Voyages d’UlysseClosure 10 (2024): 68-89.

[Info] Behrens, Anna. »Brothers and Sisters Unite: Take Back the Night in San Francisco, Cambridge, and Iowa City.« The Iowa Historical Review 11 (2024): 1-43.

[Info] Bloom, Mia, et al. »When Sexually Assaulted Women Are Not Believed: “Ideal Victims” and Political Relativity in the October 7 Hamas Attack.« Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (May 20, 2024).

[Info] Capp, Bernard. »Children, juveniles, and crime in early modern London: Old Bailey trials, 1674–1750.« Continuity and Change (May 14, 2024).

[Info] Casteen, Elizabeth. »“Just War” and “Conspicuous Sins”: Sex, Slavery, and Community in the Late Medieval Midi.« French Historical Studies 47 (2024): 531-548.


5. Websites

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II. B o o k s

1. Collected Volumes

Added: September 1, 2025

[Info] Streltsov, Dmitry, ed. Japan’s Historical Disputes with Neighboring States: Russian Perspectives. London 2025.

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Lim, Yiru, et al., eds. Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. New York 2025.

Added: June 1, 2025

[Info] Schraut, Sylvia, ed. Sexueller Missbrauch im Bistum Speyer seit 1946. Teilstudie 1: Strukturen, Konstellationen, Hintergründe. Mannheim 2025.

Added: May 1, 2025

[Info] Dill, Helga, et al., eds. Verratenes Vertrauen: Analysen zum Umgang mit sexualisierter Gewalt in der Evangelischen Kirche und der Diakonie in Deutschland. Weinheim 2025.

Added: March 1, 2025

[Info] Bonsall, Jane, et al, eds. Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Turnhout 2025.

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Garrigues, Véronique, ed. »Sur tous les fronts: Femmes en guerre du Moyen Âge au XXIe siècle. Levallois-Perret 2024.

[Info] Kitch, Sally L., et al., eds.Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence. Seattle 2024.


2. Encyclopedias

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3. Monographs

Added: September 1, 2025

[Info] Hubbe, Sophie. Erinnerungen einer ungewünschten Generation: Besatzungskinder und ihre Nachkommen auf der Suche nach den eigenen Wurzeln. Göttingen 2025.

[Info] Kulp, Kevin. Geweihte Sünder: Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch und Sodomie im mittelalterlichen Kirchenrecht. Frankfurt/Main 2025.

Added: August 1, 2025

[Info] Beyer, Charlotte. Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo. London 2025.

Added: June 1, 2025

[Info] Scotto di Carlo, Giuseppina. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage. Cham 2025.


Added: June 1, 2025

[Info] West, Brandon. Revulsion: The Paradox of Disgust in the Rape-Revenge Narrative. Wilmington 2025.

Added: April 1, 2025

[Info] De Lucia, Vincenzo. Storie di donne: Stupri in tempi di guerra caduti nell’oblio. Sesto San Giovanni 2025.

Added: March 1, 2025

[Info] O’Neill, Kevin L. Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad. Oakland 2025.

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Peakman, Julie. Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis. London 2024.

[Info] Ramseyer, J. Mark, et al. The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp. New York 2024.



III. O t h e r   P u b l i c a t i o n s

1. Essays

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2. Preprints

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3. Reports

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[Info] Vigneswaran, Kate, et al. Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence in Tigray.Washington, D.C. 2025.

Added: January 1, 2025

[Info] Ben-Or, Nava. Screams before Silence: The Application of Joint Responsibility in the Context of the Atrocities Committed on October 7 in the South of Israel. Ramat Gan 2024.

4. Reviews

Added: August 1, 2025

[Info] Cormier, Margaret. Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence. Ann Arbor 2024. (Reviewed by Colleen Renihan)

Added: August 1, 2025

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South. Chapel Hill 2024. (Reviewed by Elizabeth M. Barnes)

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Künzel, Christine, et al, eds. Rape and Revenge: Rache-Kulturen und sexualisierte Gewalt in intermedialer Perspektive. Göttingen 2024. (Reviewed by Rolf Löchel)

[Info] Künzel, Christine, et al, eds. Rape and Revenge: Rache-Kulturen und sexualisierte Gewalt in intermedialer Perspektive. Göttingen 2024. (Reviewed by Lothar Mikos)

[Info] Regoli, Roberto. Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI. South Bend 2024. (Reviewed by Todd Scribner)

Added: May 1, 2025

[Info] Karčić, Hikmet. Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System. Ann Arbor 2022. (Reviewed by Lindsay Scorgie)

[Info] Kebaneilwe, Mmapula D. The Bible and Gender-Based Violence in Botswana. London 2024. (Reviewed by Megan Robertson)

[Info] Ko, Ñusta C., ed. New Ways of Solidarity with Korean Comfort Women: Comfort Women and What Remains. Singapore 2023. (Reviewed by Khushboo Verma)

[Info] Lehner, Ulrich L. Inszenierte Keuschheit: Sexualdelikte in der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin 2024. (Reviewed by Marc R. Forster)

[Info] Tranchese, Alessia. From Fritzl to #metoo: Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press. Cham 2023. (Reviewed by Rohib A. Sangia)

Added: March 1, 2025

[Info] Cage, E. Claire. The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France. Cambridge 2022. (Reviewed by Aaron Freundschuh)

[Info] Cage, E. Claire. The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France. Cambridge 2022. (Reviewed by Heather Wolfram)

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Peakman, Julie. Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis. London 2024. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Schlappa)

[Info] Peakman, Julie. Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis. London 2024. (Reviewed by Marie Mulvey-Roberts)

[Info] Piercy, Hannah. Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire. Cambridge 2023. (Reviewed by Logan Spencer)

[Info] Ramseyer, J. Mark, et al. The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp. New York 2024. (Reviewed by Sheng-mei Ma)


4. Working Papers

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IV. T h e s e s

1. Bachelor, Honors, Senior, Undergraduate Theses

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2. Master Theses

Added: September 1, 2025

[Info] Yttermyr, Ebba. Unnecessarily Graphic or Brutally Honest? Online discussions about the sexual violence in Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday (2018). Master thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2025.

Added: April 1, 2025

[Info] Conesa Paredes, Jeanette. ¿Un cambio real o feminismo superficial? El #MeToo y su incidencia en la industria cinematográfica española. Trabajo Fin de Máster, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2025.

Added: February 1, 2025

[Info] Luna Garcés, Lucía. Women’s Resilience to Sexual Abuse in Ruined by Lynn Nottage. Trabajo Fin de Grado, Universidad de Zaragoza 2024.


3. Ph.D. Theses

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[Info] Ahsan, Md F.M. The trauma of rejection: Contemporary literary encounters with the 1971 Bangladesh war. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, 2025.

[Info] Baigorria, Judizeli. Violência sexual relacionada à gestação e aborto previsto em lei no Brasil: Dados do SINAN entre 2016 e 2022. Tese (doutorado), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2025.

Added: July 1, 2025

[Info] Dalel, Berraf H.L. Re-creational Eyewitnessing and the Representation of the Me Too Movement in Contemporary American Films. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Szeged, 2025.

[Info] Dando, Keith. Power, corruption, exploitation and abuse in the early film industry. Ph.D. Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2025.