Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Alphabetical Index

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+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

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

[Info] Bennewitz-Behr, Ingrid. »Darumb eine fraw Jrem mann nlt kan zu viel gehorsam seyn: Zur Konstituierung von Weiblichkeitsldealen im ’Ritter vom Thurn’ des Marquart von Stein.« Festschrift für Ingo Reiffenstein zum 60. Geburtstag. Edited by Peter K. Stein et al. Göppingen 1988: 545-564.

[Info] Clites, Brian. »In Search of a Historiography of Clergy Sexual Abuse.« U.S. Catholic Historian 41 (2023): 79-102.

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

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

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

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

[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] Piercy, Hannah. Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire. Cambridge 2023.

[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.

[Info] Ramseyer, J. Mark. »Contracting for sex in the Pacific War.« International Review of Law and Economics 65 (2021).

[Info] Ramseyer, J. Mark. Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to my Critics. Cambridge 2022.

[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.

[Info] Raza, Muhammad R., et al. »Media Framing on Coverage of Motorway Rape Incident: A Study of Cable Channels in Pakistan.« Asian Women 39 (2023): 25-45.

[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.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Joy, Bernard T. »‘Something is going to happen to me’: Explorations of Southern Rape Culture in Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and O'Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away35th Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2024.

[Info] Melcher, Miranda, int. »Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis.« New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work. New Books Network 2024.

[Info] Sande, Melissa. »Female Subjectivity, Sexual Violence, and the American Nation: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye26th Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2015.

[Info] Schreiber, Kayla. »Gendered Politics of Sexual Exploitation in American Slave Narratives.« 34th Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2023.

[Info] Zibrak, Arielle. »Mimesis and the ‘Man Marriage’: Protesting Marital Rape in Rebecca Harding Davis’s The Second Life.« 32nd Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2021.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Kunt, Gergely. Kipontozva: Nemi erőszak második világháborús naplókban. Budapest 2019.

[Info] Lee, Yong-Shik, et al. »The Fallacy of Contract in Sexual Slavery: A Response to Ramseyer's "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific W acific War".« Michigan Journal of International Law 42 (2021): 291-319.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Lauzon, Autumn. »Feminist Leanings and the Rejection of Rape Culture in George Lippard’s Blanche of Brandywine28th Annual Conference on American Literature. Boston 2017.



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: Amadour, Slim Grisson, Ahmed Ben Hassan, Manuel | Fictional Victims: Miss Blandish, Camilla, Floride, Inés, Isabel, Diana Mayo, Susan Nell, Yasmin | Real Incidents: Motorway Rape Incident | Real Offenders: Vladmir the Great | Real Victims: Rogneda of Polotsk

3. Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Feud of the Sviatoslavichi

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: -

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Art: Jane Jin Kaisen, Anton Losenko | Films: La mala educación, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, The Sheik, The Wicked Lady | Literary Texts: James Hadley Chase, Shashi Deshpande, Elke Garbe, Edith Maud Hull, Ilona Lammertink, Mirjam Pressler, Jayneen Sanders, Marquart von Stein, Rizia Rahman, Francois Smith, Oralee Wachter