Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

+ Medieval History

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Geographical Index

+ African History

+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

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Topical Index

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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - AUGUST 2024

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Abramovich, Dvir. »A Woman-Centered Examination of the Heroines in the Stories of Amos Oz.« Women in Judaism 6(2) (2009).

[Info] Abramovich, Dvir. »Arab-Israeli tensions and Kibbutz life in an early story by Amos Oz.« Medaon 8(15) (2014).

[Info] Akano, Richard D., et al. »Extending the rape narrative: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the construction of rape in selected Nigerian dailies.« Legon Journal of the Humanities 35 (2024): 164-191.

[Info] Amende, Kathaleen. »“A man with such an appearance was capable of anything”: Imaginary Rape and the Violent “Other” in Faulkner’s “Dry September” and Oz’s “Nomad and Viper”.« The Faulkner Journal 25 (2010): 9-22.

[Info] Bull, Lina, et al. “Här luktar inte ens svett, här luktar det hora”: En historisk överblick av makt, jämställdhet och trakasserier i svensk poliskår. Independent Thesis, Malmö Universitet, 2024.

[Info] Busol, Kateryna. »When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine.« Journal of Genocide Research 25 (2023): 279-314.

[Info] Busol, Kateryna. »When the Head of State Makes Rape Jokes, His Troops Rape on the Ground: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine.« The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide. Edited by Diana Dumitru et al. London 2025.

[Info] Carver, Larry. Rochester and the Pursuit of Pleasure. Manchester 2024.

[Info] Castanié, Mathilde. »Le Journal d’une femme de chambre confronté à l’imaginaire social de la domestique violée au xixe siècle.« Cahiers Octave Mirbeau No. 30 (2023): 225-254.

[Info] Dentand, Claire E. Cancel Culture im Kontext der MeToo Bewegung als Herausforderung für die Unschuldsvermutung: Anhand der Beispiele Gérard Depardieu, Jörg Kachelmann und Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin. Master Thesis, Universität Zürich, 2024.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South. Chapel Hill 2024.

[Info] Ebest, Sally B. »Breaking the Silence of Child Sexual Abuse in the Irish‑American Catholic Church.« The Routledge History of Irish America. New York 2024: 445-457.

[Info] Felix, Meg. “You May as Well Be Quiet”: Sexual Assault in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Honors Thesis, University of Memphis, 2024

[Info] Gajda, Kinga A., et al. »In Situ, Ex Situ, and Virtual Situ in a Museum Telling about Trauma.« The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 17 (2024): 143-162.

[Info] Gathern. Cara. Testament, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Revisions of the ‘Lucretia’ Narrative. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Brighton, 2024.

[Info] Göppel, Rolf. »Über das Verhältnis von Erzählung, Deutung und Theoriekonstruktion am Beispiel von Freuds Fallgeschichte „Katharina“.« Widerstreitendes Erzählen: Ambivalenzen im Kontext (inklusions-)pädagogischer Ansprüche. Edited by Jens Geldner-Belli et al. Wiesbaden 2024: 89-108.

[Info] Johnson, Evan B. Violence and Retailiation: Civilian Agency in Thuringia during the Thirty Years’ War. M.A. Thesis, University of Georgia, 2024.

[Info] Kallenberg, Vera. »Sexualisierte Gewalt, Judenfeindschaft und marginalisierte jüdische Männlichkeit: Eine intersektionale Analyse des Kriminalprozesses gegen den ‚Schutzjudensohn‘ Heyum Windmühl (Frankfurt a.M. 1808).« Verschränkte Ungleichheit: Praktiken der Intersektionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Edited by Matthias Bähr et al. Berlin 2018: 205-241.

[Info] Lutjens, Richard N. Submerged on the Surface: The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945. New York 2019.

[Info] Novak, Royce. »In Search of Vietnam's Comfort Women: New Materials and Directions in Studies on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery.« Journal of Asian Studies 83 (2024): 619-645.

[Info] Ramos, Vasco, et al. »From percentages to narratives: Giving silence a voice in child sexual abuse within the Portuguese Catholic Church, 1950–2022.« Child Abuse & Neglect 154 (2024).

[Info] Silva, Cristiano A. da, et al. »Gênero, tortura e trauma: Relatos da Ditadura Militar brasileira.« Revista Brasileira de História da Mídia 13 (2024): 78-94.

[Info] Skwiot, Malgorzata. »Lost in Translation: Understanding Linguistic Patterns in Ancient Narratives of Sexual Assault and Abduction.« The Elphinstone Review 10 (2024): 27-40.

[Info] Smith-Ledford, Madeline E. Reclaiming Horror From Eugenicists: A Study On H.P. Lovecraft, Eugenics, And Modern Adaptation Honors Thesis, University of Arizona, 2019.

[Info] Staidum, Frederick C. “To Filthy to be Repeated”: Reading Sexualized Violence Against Enslaved Males in U.S. Slave Societies. Master Thesis, Cornell University, 2007.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Aizenberg, Tamar. »What is Told and Untold: Comparing Survivors’ and Their Grandchildren’s Narratives of the Holocaust.« 55th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Francisco 2023.

[Info] Amende, Kathaleen E. »'A man with such an appearance was capable of anything': Imaginary Rape and the Violent 'Other' in William Faulkner's 'Dry September' and Amos Oz's 'Nomad and Viper'.« Faulkner and Twain Conference. 2006.

[Info] Ben-Yaakov, Reut. »“It's Doubtful … It Isn't Even Logical, It Can't Be Proved, and It's Crazy”: Suspicion and Insinuations in Amos Oz’s Literature.« 54th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2022.

[Info] Brutin, Batya. »Violated! Jewish Women during the Holocaust in Visual Art.« 52th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2020.

[Info] Carrillo-Rangel, David. »This Is a Rebel Paper, or How the Author Will Reflect on History as Abusive and Look at Rape through the Queer Medievalist Lens.« 31st International Medieval Congress. Leeds 2024.

[Info] Doughty, Shirelle M. »Dreaming of the Inquisition-Bed: The Poetry of Celia Dropkin & the Politics of Female Desire.« 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Chicago 2021.

[Info] Douglas, R.M. »“Deserving” or “Undeserving” Victims? Prosecuting Sexual Ofences by U.S. Soldiers against Italian Civilians, 1943–1945.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Hajkova, Anna. »The Hard Questions: On Barter, Prostitution, and Help as Social Interaction.« 55th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Francisco 2023.

[Info] Haugeberg, Karissa. »“On a Quiet Warpath”: Nursing and Sexual Harassment in the Era of Managed Care.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Holc, Janine. »Jewish Encounters with Sexual Violence at World War II Liberation: The Case of Parschnitz in Sudetenland.« 54th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2020.

[Info] Jacquet, Catherine. »Providing “much needed information”: The First Studies on the Sexual Abuse of Incarcerated Women.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Kallenberg, Vera. »Sexualized violence, hostility towards Jews, and MARGINALIZED JEWISH MASCULINITY: Jews before the Penal Court in Central Europe around 1800.« 50th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2018.

[Info] Kamholz, Rebecca. »“One who is Raped is not Comparable to One who is Seduced”: Women’s Legal and Sexual Agency in the Babylonian Talmud.« 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Chicago 2021.

[Info] Kruspe, Lilú. »Lost in the Crowd: Sex Work, Sex Trafficking and the Lost Individual in Newspaper Coverage of ‘Mädchenhandel’.« Annual Conference of the German History Society. Manchester 2024.

[Info] Lawlor, Ruth, chair. »Responding to Rape: Activism, State Power, and the Law.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Linnehan, MaryEllen. »Philomela as Crisis: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Trauma and Intertextuality in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde31st International Medieval Congress. Leeds 2024.

[Info] Lipman, Jana. »Re-thinking the “Big Dan’s Rape Case”: Feminists, Immigrant Advocacy, and the Law Forty Years Later.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Michals, Debra, chair. »Silencing and Erasure in North America: Comparative Histories of Violence against Women and Children, 19th–21st Century.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Ott, Katherine, chair. »Missing Histories of Sexual Assault.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Pope, Ruth. »Child Sexual Abuse: Contested Knowledge in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s.« Annual Conference of the German History Society. Manchester 2024.

[Info] Wiesner, Caitlin. »Concerned Women: Black Feminists Confront the Crime of Black-on-Black Rape .« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Zuehlke, Christin. »Marking Jewish Bodies: Jewish Masculinities during the Holocaust.« 54th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2022.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Abramovich, Dvir. »Rape and Violence in the Fiction of Amos Oz.« Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 12 (1998): 119-142.

[Info] Caesar, Terry. »Sexual Assault and Cognitive Mapping in Women's Travel Guidebooks.« Women's Studies 28 (1999): 527-545.

[Info] Cundy, Jody E. »Pausanias' Careful Language of Sexual Violence: Rape, Race, and Agency in the Periegesis HelladosMnemosyne 74 (2020): 76-98.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Freeze, ChaeRan Y. »Epistemic Injustice in Jewish Rape and Seduction Court Cases in Tsarist Russia.« 51st Annual Conference of the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Diego 2019.

[Info] Verskin, Alan. »Women of Valor: The Reflections of a 19th Century Yemeni Jewish Man on Rape Culture.« 51st Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Diego 2019.



III. N e w   S u b d i r e c t o r i e s

Topical Index

1. Prosecution: -

2. Cases: Fictional Offenders: Count Dracula | Fictional Victims: Célestine, Minnie Cooper, Geula, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra | Real Offenders: Gérard Depardieu, Jörg Kachelmann, Heyum Windmühl | Real Victims: Claudia Simone Dinkel, Eleonore Fester, Aurelie Kronich (Katharina), Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin, Hester

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: Commemoration: Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Art: Muriel Nezhnie Helfman, Zeev Porath, Elizabeth Talbot, The Triumph of Chastity Over Love, Francesco Vecellio, Racheli Yosef | Films: Castle Freak, Cthulhu, Dagon, The Dunwich Horror, From Beyond, The Haunted Palace, Innsmouth, Re-Animator | Historiographical Texts: Volkmar Happe | Literary Texts: Celia Dropkin, Emilia Lanier, Octave Mirbeau, Isabella Whitney | Press: Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune, The Punch, The Sun, Vanguard