Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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NEW PUBLICATIONS
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I. A r t i c l e s

1. Blogs

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2. Collected Volumes

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 Masters.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025.

[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.

[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.

[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 SatiMayna.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025.

[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.

[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.


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: 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.


Added: January 1, 2025

[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: 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

No recent additions.


3. Monographs

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

Added: May 1, 2025

[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: 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: 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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