Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

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Geographical Index

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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2024

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft und ihre Rolle in der Aufarbeitung von Fällen sexualisierter Gewalt gegen Kinder und Jugendliche durch pädagogische Professionelle: Endbericht. Vienna 2022

[Info] Bailey, Indira. »Sexing the Canvas: The Rape Narrative of the Black Female Body in Western History Paintings.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 87-97.

[Info] Bose, Melia B. »Amio: Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Bangladeshi Art.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 187-200.

[Info] Brems, Brian. »Deny the Beast: The Howling (1981) and Rape Culture.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 63-78.

[Info] Burkholder-Mosco, Nicole. »Painting Pain on Her Skin: Vigilante Justice and the Feminist Revenge Heroine in The Girl with the Dragon TattooScreening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 155-174.

[Info] Caldwell, Ellen C., et al., eds. Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. University Park 2024.

[Info] Caldwell, Ellen C., et al. »Introduction: Gender Violence and Art History.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 1-22.

[Info] Chan, Julia. »“The Rapiest Film of the 1980s”: Analog “Revenge Porn,” Raced and Gendered Surveillance, and Revenge of the NerdsScreening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 95-116.

[Info] Daileader, Celia R. »“Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 67-89.

[Info] Dolan, Frances E. »Afterword.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 249-253.

[Info] Everbach, Tracy. »Believable: Feminist Resistance of Rape Culture in Netflix's UnbelievableScreening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 225-240.

[Info] Fabijanska, Monika. »To Censor or to Teach: Educational Reflections on a Foundational Exhibition.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 138-149.

[Info] Fryd, Vivien G. »Anti-Rape and Anti-Incest Counternarratives: Art in the United States Since the 1960s and in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 201-210.

[Info] Funnell, Lisa, et al. »Introduction: The Promise of #MeToo as a Theoretical Lens.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 1-10.

[Info] Funnell, Lisa, et al., eds. Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Albany 2022.

[Info] Funnell, Lisa. »Delightful Duties? Sexual Violence in the Connery-Era James Bond Films (1962-1971).« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 11-28.

[Info] Gao, Ming. »Emotions of perpetrators and victim-survivors: Multi-layered violence against Chinese women during the Asia-Pacific War.« Critical Asian Studies (October 14, 2024).

[Info] Gessen, Masha. »What We Know About The Weaponoization of Sexual Violence on October 7th.« The New Yorker (July 20, 2024).

[Info] Hansen, Michelle K. »Seeing What Isn't There: The Invisible Man and #MeToo.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 211-224.

[Info] Karlin, Katherine. »A Rapist in My Apartment: Class, Rape, and Saturday Night FeverScreening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 47-62.

[Info] Kirchner, Lisa. »„Hätte nur jede Nation so ein diszipliniertes Heer …“: Geschlechterbeziehungen und sexuelle Gewalt in autobiografischen Aufzeichnungen des Ersten Weltkrieges (Österreich-Ungarn).« L'Homme 35 (2024): 85-102.

[Info] Lee, Eun-joo. »Anticommunist Representation of ‘Comfort Women’ through Multiracial Democracy in Therese Park’s A Gift of the Emperor영어영문학연구 66 (2024): 155-182.

[Info] Lett, Didier. »Frauen vor Gericht: Zur Rolle von Geschlecht in der Rechtspraxis der zentralitalienischen Kommunen Tolentino und San Severino im 15. Jahrhundert.« L'Homme 35 (2024): 69-84.

[Info] MacDonald, Shana. »Flipping the Script on Consent: Re-centering Young Women's Sexual Agency in Teen Comedies.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 193-210.

[Info] Meek, Michele. »Taking Consent into Account: American Teen Films amidst #MeToo.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 175-192.

[Info] Moore, Clare. »Elmar, Aerin, and Aredhel: Female Enslavement in Tolkien’s Legendarium.« Mythlore 43 (2024): 143-166.

[Info] Moro, Sabrina. »Before #MeToo: Maria Schneider and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 29-46.

[Info] Naser-Hall, Emily. »A Woman of Obvious Power: Witchcraft and the Case against Marital Rape in 1980s America.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 79-94.

[Info] Rafanelli, Lisa. »Breaking the Silence: Depictions of Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Violation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art.« Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An Intervention. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell et al. University Park 2024: 62-73.

[Info] Ranjan, Amit. »Women in War Zones: Rape at the time of Bangladesh Liberation War.« The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact. Edited by Amit Ranjan et al. London 2025: 73-94.

[Info] Rashid Khaleel, Intisar. »Kate: A Voice to Sexual Abuse Trauma in Helen Benedict’s Sand QueenMorfologi 2 (2024): 1-10.

[Info] Razack, Sherene H. »The Weaponization of Feminism in a Time of Genocide: A Response to Masha Gessen.« Journal of Palestine Studies 53 (2024): 113-119.

[Info] Robin, Marie. »“A Constant Influx of Men, Day and Night”: Sex Trafficking and French Military Prostitution During the First Vietnam War (1946–54).« Histories of Sex Work Around the World. Edited by Catherine Phipps. New York 2024: 115-134.

[Info] Rodríguez Blanco, Cynthia. »Ser Madre en solitario: Un retrato de las familias incompletas en la Castilla Moderna.« Studia Historica: Historia Moderna 46 (2024): 61-85.

[Info] Shang, Xuehan. History as a Dynamic Product of Multiple Factors: A Case Study of the “Comfort Women” Movement in China M.A. Thesis, University of Chicago, 2024.

[Info] Spallacci, Amanda. »Survivors in Rape-Revenge Films: Melancholic Vigilantes.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 135-154.

[Info] Speller, Brittany C. »“Nothing happened to her that she didn’t invite”: Wes Craven, Rape Culture, and the Scream Trilogy.« Screening #MeToo: Rape Culture in Hollywood. Edited by Lisa Funnell et al. Albany 2022: 117-134.

[Info] Su, Zhiliang, et al. Historical Studies on Comfort Women in Shanghai: A Field Study Approach. Singapore 2024.

[Info] Varholy, Cristine M. »“But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 41-65.

[Info] Ward, Joseph P., ed. Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. New York 2008.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Bos, Pascale R. »On the Rape of Jewish Women: October 7th in the Shadow of the Shoah.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Burstin, Hinde E. »IKH BIN GEVORN SHTUM: Coercion, control and gender-based violence in two Yiddish poems by Avigayl.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Cobb, Kirsi. »Gender and Sexual Violence in Hosea.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2024.

[Info] Gaca, Kathy. »Why It Is Good for a Man "Not to haptesthai a Woman" in 1 Cor 7:1.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2024.

[Info] Glowacka, Dorota, chair. »Sexual Violence in the Holocaust.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Jones, William. »Sexual(ized) Violence and the ‘Non-Absent’ Male Body: Castration and Sterilization in Auschwitz.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Kim, Jung A. »Abject Female-Beast Bodies: The Domestication of the Scarlet Beast and the Sexualized Murder and the Consumption of the Whore of Babylon in Revelation 17.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2024.

[Info] Maturu, Milly E. »A Contextual Analysis of the Sarai-Hagar Conflict from an African Perspective.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2024.

[Info] Person, Katarzyna. »The Language of Women’s Experience in Small Ghettos in Occupied Poland.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Pollin-Galay, Hannah. »How Yiddish Dealt with Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: From Pipels to Kuzinkes.« 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Tombs, David. » The Unspeakable Trauma of Crucifixion: Hermeneutical Insights from How Sexual Violence Is Referenced in Present-Day Torture Reports.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2024.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Deacy, Susan, et al, eds. Revisiting Rape in Antiquity: Sexualised Violence in Greek and Roman Worlds. London 2023.

[Info] Monastyrova, Yelyzaveta. »Human Trafficking and International Armed Conflict: Applying the Trafficking Lens to Sexual Violence, Forced Labour and Deportation in the Russian-Occupied Territories of Ukraine.« Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement & Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 5 (2024): 211-243.


2. Speaker Index



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: Fictional Victims: Aerin, Aredhel, Kate Brady, Elmar; Real Incidents: Hamas Attack on Israel; Real Offenders: Real Victims:

3. Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Israel–Hamas War

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: Commemoration: The Un-Heroic Act

7. Research: Education Science: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft

8. Representations: Art: Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani, Robert Thom, Lisa Love Whittington; Films: Blockers, Booksmart, Good Boys, The Howling; The Invisible Man, The Kissing Booth, Last Tango in Paris, Revenge of the Nerds, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3 , To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Unbelievable, The Witches, The Witches of Eastwick; Literary Texts: Helen Benedict, Mary Lynn Bracht, Lim Chul Woo