Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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UPDATE - APRIL 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Ahn, Hakyoung. »Empowerment and Exploitation: Sexual Dynamics in Han Kang’s The VegetarianTulsa Studies in Women's Literature 43 (2024): 277-293.

[Info] Artawan, Gde. »The Picture and Cultural Struggle of the Balinese Women in Novels Written by Panji Tisna, Puti Wijaya, and Oka Rusmini.« e-Journal of Linguistics 5(2) (2011).

[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] Burns, Astrid. Feelin' Like a Criminal: Fiona Apple and the Lolita Effect. St. Louis 2024.

[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] 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.

[Info] De Lucia, Vincenzo. Storie di donne: Stupri in tempi di guerra caduti nell’oblio. Sesto San Giovanni 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] 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] Johnson, Alexandra. »Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis.« M.A. Thesis, The City University of New York, 2021.

[Info] Lehner, Ulrich L. Inszenierte Keuschheit: Sexualdelikte in der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Berlin 2024.

[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] Maierhofer, Waltraud. »Zur Repräsentation der Frau und des Weiblichen in Döblins WallensteinInternationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium Leiden 1995. Edited by Gabriele Sander. Bern 1997: 95-114.

[Info] Maierhofer, Waltraud, et al. »"Ich will nichts wissen": Wissen und Verleugnung von sexualisierter Gewalt in Kleists Die Marquise von O... und Starks Film JuliettaHeinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept. Explorations of Literary Dissonance. Edited by Dieter Sevin et al. Berlin 2013: 363-378.

[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] 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] 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] Sree, Raj. »Traumascapes, Temporality and Memory in Trauma Narratives.« The Academic 3 (2025): 965-970.

[Info] Shaker, Heidi. »Meanings of Mass Rape During the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: Understanding Intersectionality Through Survivor Testimonies.« Women in French Studies 31 (2023): 64-80.

[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).

[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.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Acadia, L. »St Augustine’s Consolation: The Fifth Century religious origin of contemporary consent-based rape definitions.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Barkovskiy, Tatiana. »Labour, Sexual Violence, and Healing: The Body of Ecclesia in Hildegard of Bingen’s ‘Scivias’.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Virtual 2023.

[Info] Black, Daisy. »‘Syr, curtesy doth it yow lere’: Using politeness to resist courtly love (and other forms of sexual harassment).« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Brown, Heidi. »Rape as Genocide: Survivor Testimonies from the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.« 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.

[Info] Cooper, Mariah. »More than Hagiographic Rhetoric: Sexual Violence in Le Bone Florence of Rome and Medieval England’s Raptus Laws.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Dickson, Morgan. »The “Wooing Woman” Revisited: Class, Race and Rape Fantasy in The Romance of Horn.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] He, Belinda. »Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Isaacson, Johanna. »Unsuturing: The Double Axis of Rape Revenge in American Mary.« Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Los Angeles 2018.

[Info] Johnson, Alexandra. »Place, Prize, and Agency through Rape: Chaucer’s Lady Constance and Martin’s Sansa Stark.« 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.

[Info] Kayaal. Tuğçe. »Untamed Sexualities, Unruly Places: War Orphans and the Case of House of Orphans in Konya.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Kelly, Lucinda. »Alternative Strategies for Seeking Redress in the Aftermath of a Sexual Assault: Case Studies from Thirteenth-Century England.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. London 2023.

[Info] Lee, Jaeyeon. »Digital Hauntology: The Heeum Museum’s VR Exhibition of Comfort Women’s Ghostly Testimonies.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Levine, Rachel S. »From Obscurity to Action: Japan’s Human Rights Battle Against Sexual Violence.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Li, Lin. »Becoming Vocal: Politicizing the Voices of “Comfort Women”.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Lim, Hyesong. »Women on the Red Island: Women’s Memories of Violence during the Jeju April 3rd Massacres, 1947–54.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Liu, Qiong. »Reconceptualize Rape in Revolution: Narratives about Sexual Crimes in the Land Reform in China.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Ma, Chaoran. »“Barbarian Women” on the Riverbank: Ethnicity, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking in Qing Southwest China.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Mazumdar, Megha . »’I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be’: Lusty Womanhood, Rape Trauma, and Covert Feminine Desires expressed in Medieval Music.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Morris, Kevin. »Witnessing and Overhearing: Prison Rape and Sexual Violence in Donald Goines and James Baldwin.« 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.

[Info] Novak, Royce. »The Political Economy of Silence: War, Revolution, and Capital in the Absent Memory of Vietnamese “Comfort Women”.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] O’Duffy, Grace. »The rape of the Bǫðvildr/Beaduhild figure according to scop, skáld, and saga writer.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Virtual 2023.

[Info] Rout, Deblina. »Graphic Activism: #MeToo and the Graphic Representation of Sexual Abuse in Drawing Power53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.

[Info] Saha, Debadrita. »The faithful wife or a slave to patriarchal norms? Delineating sexual coercion and consent in Chandimanagal and SatiMayna.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Schmueckle, Mara. »‘Dummodo tu Helena mulier…rapta non fueris’: Gender and assumptions of consent in late medieval Scotland.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.

[Info] Schwarzmann, Gabrielle. »Precedent in late medieval English rape cases.« Comparative Practices in Pre-Modern Law. Bielefeld 2022.

[Info] Schwarzmann, Gabrielle. »Legal Proceedings as Survival Strategies in the Aftermath of Rape in the Late Middle Ages.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. London 2023.

[Info] Sergeleng, Sachraa. »Female Chastity and Legal Practices in 19th-Century Inner Mongolia.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Shapiro, Sarah P. »“Under the Pretense”: Caretaking Vulnerabilities and Sexual Assault in Revolutionary New England.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Suh, Jae-jung. »Clash of Transnational Discourses on “Comfort Women”: Antagonistic Interdependence of Regionalist and Nationalist Forces in Japan and Korea.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Ye, Zi. »The Early Institutionalization of Military Comfort Women.« Emerging Scholars Series. Honolulu 2022.

[Info] Ye, Zi. »Rethinking Recruiters’ Motivations for Participating in Wartime Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Early “Comfort Women” Recruiters in Japan.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Yoo, Seon M. »Granny Lee’s Authority as Knowledge Producer: Re-presenting Comfort Women’s Testimony.« 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022.

[Info] Zhang, Wen. »War Memory and Postwar Reconciliation: An Analysis of Yoshiko Yamaguchi Biography.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Columbus 2025.

[Info] Zheng, Tiantian. »Sexual Violence and Unworthy Victims in Postsocialist China.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Zygogianni, Maria. »Her Garden: Consent and the Hortus Conclusus in The Knight’s Tale and The Isle of Ladies.« Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. Paris 2022.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

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

Topical Index

1. Prosecution: Trials: Restorative Justice

2. Cases: Fictional Offenders: Ida Ayu Cempaka, Mr. Cheong, Max, I Gusti Made Tusan | Fictional Victims: Julietta, Ida Ayu Kenanga, Ni Luh Sukreni, Yeong-hye | Mythological Victims: Böðvildr | Real Incidents: Boy Scouts of America Sexual Abuse Cases, Society of Jesus Sexual Abuse Cases | Real Offenders: Maximilian Gill, Adam Herler, Jakob Marell, Franz Schlegl | Real Victims: Bae Bong-gi

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: Museums: Heeum Museum

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Comics: Drawing Power | Films: I Can Speak, Julietta, Ming Ghost, Parched, Shards of Her | Song Texts: Fiona Apple | Literary Texts: Chandimangal, Donald Goines, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Romance of Horn, Oka Rusmini, Panji Tisna | Religous Texts: Hildegard of Bingen