Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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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: February 1, 2026

[Info] Goldberg, Simon. »„Motherys Sako“: Seksualinis smurtas Kauno gete.« 80-čiai metų nuo Kauno geto sunaikinimo praėjus - ką atsimename, ko pasimokėme?. Kaunas 2025: 42-56.

[Info] Goldberg, Simon. »“The Women are saying”: Sexual Violence in the Kaunas Ghetto.« 80 Years after the Destruction of the Kaunas Ghetto - What Do We Remember, What Have We Learnt?. Kaunas 2025: 213-227.

[Info] Matić, Uroš. »Archaeology of Genital Mutilation: Disabled Masculinity of Libyan Enemies in the Egyptian New Kingdom.« Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays. Edited by Alexandra F. Morris et al. London 2025: 310-328.

Added: January 1, 2026

[Info] Bal, Mieke. »NEIN! zu den Weinsteins dieser Welt: Susanna in Aufruhr.« Feministische Bibelwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Edited by Ilse Müllner et al. Stuttgart 2025: 200-210.

[Info] Beatty, Aidan. »From the SLL to the WRP: Violence, gender and the perils of Leninism.« In solidarity, under suspicion: The British far left from 1956. Edited by Daniel Frost et al. Manchester 2025: 94-117.

[Info] Cosgrave, Elinor. »Sexual Violence against Women in the Process of Captive-Taking in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire.« Brill's Companion to Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World. Edited by Elizabeth Carney et al. Leiden 2025: 304-325.

[Info] Lampinen, Antti. »Boudica’s Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman Discourse.« Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian World. Edited by Elina Pyy. Rome 2025: 151-169.

[Info] Maier, Christl M. »Krieg und sexualisierte Gewalt: Traumastudien als neue Perspektive.« Feministische Bibelwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Edited by Ilse Müllner et al. Stuttgart 2025: 139-151.

[Info] Maweranga, Jones, et al. »Digital Feminist Citizenship in Malawi: Mwiza Chavura’s rape song.« Feminist digital citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights and Resistance. Edited by Tanja Bosch et al. London 2025: 169-182.

[Info] Meier, Frank. »Prostituierte in mittelalterlichen Städten – zwischen Achtung und Verachtung.« Marginalization and Marginal Groups in Byzantium: Prostitutes, Actors, and Tavernkeepers. Edited by Despoina Ariantzi. Berlin 2025: 147-177.

[Info] Oosterhuis, Janwillem. »The Dutch Supreme Court on rape and sexual assault between 1886 and 1991.« The Making of Criminal Law: The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edited by Aniceto Masferrer. London 2026: 178-200.

[Info] Radonić, Ljiljana. »Globalized Memorial Museums.« The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Edited by Ihab Saloul et al. Cham 2025.

[Info] Silva Prada, Natalia. »Putas, bellacas y alcahuetas: voces indias contra injurias en los estrados judiciales de Santafé de Bogotá, 1609-1616.« ntre injurias y devociones: autoridades, cuerpos y voces indígenas en los Andes del Norte en los siglos XVI al XVIII. Edited by Héctor Cuevas Arenas. Cali 2025: 21-56.

[Info] Sunnqvist, Martin. »Case law between the adoption of two criminal codes, Sweden 1864–1962: The definition of rape and aspects of criminal intent.« The Making of Criminal Law: The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edited by Aniceto Masferrer. London 2026: 261-271.


3. Encyclopedias

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4. Journals

Added: February 1, 2026

[Info] Abdelkrim, Ladjadj, et al. »The role of judicial mechanisms in compensating Algerian women victim of crimes against humanity committed by the French occupation.« Journal of Legal and Economic Studies 8 (2025): 1096-1109.

[Info] Astashkevich, Irina. »The Carnival and the Trickster: A Case Study of the Horodziej Pogrom, July 1920.« Polin 38 (2026): 289-306.

[Info] Barbosa, Andréa, et al. »Sexual Violence Against Female Children and Adolescents in Brazil (2011-2021), in the Light of Intersectionality.« Baraúnas 3 (2025): 451-469.

[Info] Barbosa, Andréa, et al. »Violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes do gênero feminino no Brasil, entre 2011 e 2021, à luz da interseccionalidade.« Baraúnas 3 (2025): 428-450.

[Info] Black, Daisy, et al. »‘Jeust twa folk ken’: Adapting and Performing The Seven Sages of ScotlandOpen Library of Humanities Journal 11 (2025): 1-26.

[Info] Córdoba-Arroyo, Esteban. »Shifting memories in vignettes: Depictions of World War II in gakushū manga and their impact on Japanese nationalism and pacifism.« Memory, Mind & Media 5 (2025): 1-16.

[Info] Džiho-Šator, Aida. »Književnost memorijalizacije – ratno silovanje, rodno nasilje i trauma u romanu Škriptaji kože Amile Kahrović Posavljak.« Društvene i humanističke studije 10 (2025): 233-254.

[Info] Gray, Morgan. »Reciprocal Contracts: Reconstructing Sexual Consent in Late Colonial Lima.« The Latin Americanist 69 (2025): 348-372.

[Info] Hammer, Hilke. »„Proletarische Frauen, seid bereit!“ Antimilitaristische Agitation proletarischer Frauen in der Zeitschrift Die Gleichheit (1892-1923).« medien & zeit 40 (2025): 4-13.

[Info] Kilroy, Ciara. »Beyond Precedent: Sexual Violence as an Act of Genocide in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.« Peace and Conflict Studies 32 (2025): 1-23.

[Info] Moshövel, Andrea. »Lexikographische Einblicke in das Sprechen über Sexuelles im Frühneuhochdeutschen.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 451-468.

[Info] Ohlmeyer, Jane. »Women and Sexual Violence in the “1641 Depositions”.« Law and History Review 43 (2025): 221-238.

[Info] Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine, et al. »Sexuelle Selbstermächtigung und sexualisierte Gewalt im ‚Nonnenturnier‘ und im ‚Rosendorn‘.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 381-404.

[Info] Turek, Jacqueline. »Uneheliche Schwangerschaften und weiblicher Gesindedienst im vormodernen Nürnberg: Eine Untersuchung zu Klagen von schwangeren Mägden vor städtischen Gerichten.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 336-359.

[Info] Waligórska, Magdalena. »Intimate Dispossession as a Form of Violence: Plunder of Jewish Personal Belongings in East-Central Europe.« Journal of Modern European History (2025).

[Info] Weng, Julie M. »James Joyce’s Encounter with Sexual Harassment.« James Joyce Quarterly 62 (2025): 249-272.

Added: January 1, 2026

[Info] Ahmed, Osman S., et al. »Is calling the SAF-RSF conflict a ‘dirty war’ an objective description or a moral judgment? A critical analysis of the ongoing war in Sudan (2023–present).« Cogent Social Sciences 11 (2025).

[Info] Aprile, Lucia. »Il dottore in guerra: violenze sessuali e saperi medico-legali nel Mezzogiorno in armi (1860-1865).« Rassegna storica del Risorgimento 112 (2025): 126-146.

[Info] Bianchini, Ginevra. »The “Unreliable Narrator of a Historical Manifesto”: Reimagining and Re-historicising Depictions of Sexual Violence During American Slavery in Kara Walker’s Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good IntentionsAngles No. 20 (2025).

[Info] Bosman, Tiana. »‘Hush-hush’: Hearing the Silent and Silenced Screams of Bathsheba and Tamar in 2 Samuel 11 and 13.« Scriptura 124 (2025).

[Info] Corti, Alessia. »“It’s just a song, don’t make a big deal out of it!”: How Italian Rap Lyrics Normalise Gender-Based Violence and Rape Culture.« The Beacon Journal of Human Rights (December 6, 2025).

[Info] Eichinger, Christoph, et al. »Das Hexenverhörprotokoll Fürsteneck (1703): Linguistische Analyse, kulturgeschichtliche Einordnung und Neuedition.« Passauer Jahrbuch 67 (2025): 1-113.

[Info] Eron, Abby. »Race, Contemporary Art, and Historical Memory.« The Brooklyn Rail (November 2025).

[Info] Kumari, Sheetal. »Is She Still There? Child Sex Trafficking, Traumatic Memory and Resilience in Mischa Marcus’ Film I Am Still Here.« Cinej 13 (2025): 390-425.

[Info] Odo, Damian O., et al. »Genesis 34:1-4 Read in the Context of Sexual Violence Against Female Teenagers in Nigerian Society.« Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies 13 (2025).

[Info] Palmer, Margaret M. »“Stop Acting Like a Diva”: Responses to Sexual Violence in Young Adult Romance Novels.« SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 9 (2026).

[Info] Phillips, Carson. »Muted Memories: Reconciling Memories of Sexual Violence and Abuse in Holocaust Survivor Narratives.« Word and Text 15 (2025): 181-194.

[Info] Suciu, Marian. »The Korean Girl during the Japanese Occupation.« Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica 26 (2025): 81-92.


5. Websites

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II. B o o k s

1. Collected Volumes

Added: February 1, 2026

[Info] Keyse, Rhian E., et al., eds. Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity. Cham 2026.

[Info] Paulovicova, Nina, et al, eds. Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946. West Lafayette 2025.

Added: January 1, 2026

[Info] Béraud, Céline, et al. eds. From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church. Leiden 2025.

[Info] Masferrer, Aniceto, ed. The Making of Criminal Law: The Role of Case Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries. London 2026.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse, et al., eds. Feministische Bibelwissenschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart 2025.


2. Encyclopedias

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3. Monographs

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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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4. Reviews

Added: February 1, 2026

[Info] Davies, Hannah C. Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik 1973 bis 1997. Hamburg 2025. (Reviewed by Petra Gehring)

[Info] Vaage, Margrethe B. The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television: Rape-Revenge and Women’s Anger. Edinburgh 2024. (Reviewed by Dan Flory)

[Info] Vaage, Margrethe B. The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television: Rape-Revenge and Women’s Anger. Edinburgh 2024. (Reviewed by Joy McEntee)

[Info] Vaage, Margrethe B. The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television: Rape-Revenge and Women’s Anger. Edinburgh 2024. (Reviewed by Fruzsina Papp)


5. Working Papers

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IV. T h e s e s

1. Bachelor, Honors, Senior, Undergraduate Theses

Added: February 1, 2026

[Info] Andersson, Viktor, et al. En tematisk analys om framställningen av människohandel för sexuella ändamål i filmerna Taken (2008), Skin Trade (2014) & Ruthless (2023). Examensarbete, Högskolan i Gävle, 2025.

Added: January 1, 2026

[Info] Blokh, Adele. “Stories that are silenced for way too Long”: Silence on sexual violence during the Holocaust and the importance of accurate depiction of it. B.A. Thesis, Fordham University, 2025.


2. Master Theses

Added: January 1, 2026

[Info] Fernández Soto, Alba. “Tis a Shame to Live”: The Loss of Feminine Virtue and “la Honra” in the Stage Plays of the Golden Age in England and Spain. Trabajo Fin de Máster, Universidad de Valladolid, 2025.


3. Ph.D. Theses

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