Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

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Geographical Index

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+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

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Topical Index

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UPDATE - JUNE 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Aquino, Catherine L., et al. »Twice Removed: The Mystery of Manila’s Missing Comfort Woman Monument.« De-Commemoration: Removing Statues and Renaming Places. Edited by Sarah Gensburger et al. New York 2024: 261-269.

[Info] Aquino, Catherine L. »‘To remember everything, to remember always’: The writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of DestinyWomen's History Review (April 29, 2025).

[Info] Aretz, Sabine E. »“We have the power now”: Notions of (Em)Power(ment) and Solidarity in Documentaries of the USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Scandal.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 26-39.

[Info] Barnes, Elizabeth M. »Sexual Violence and Military Justice in the Occupied South.« Civil War History 71 (2025): 9-31.

[Info] Bělehradová, Andrea, et al. »“Dark Corners”: Child Sex Murder, Forensic Expertise, and Protective Treatment in Socialist Czechoslovakia.« Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (April 22, 2025).

[Info] Beliveau, Ralph, et al. »Introduction: The #MeToo Lens and the Television Industry.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 1-8.

[Info] Berendt, Genevieve. »Silence and Scream: Women’s Options and Oppressions in Maghrebi Cinema.« Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 5 (2019): 1-26.

[Info] Böhm, Maya, et al. »Erfahrungen in DDR-Kinderheimen: Moralische Verletzung, Scham und (komplexe) Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung.« Trauma & Gewalt 19 (2025): 114-124.

[Info] Brault, Samantha R. »"The Barbarians of Hollywood": The Exploitation of Aurora Mardiganian by the American Film Industry.« Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 2 (2016): 22-33.

[Info] Burrell, Erin K. »She Married Him Anyways: Exploring Sexual Violence in Mad Men#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 65-76.

[Info] Castagna, JoAnn, et al. »Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels.« Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection. Edited by Katherine A. Ackley. New York 1990: 299-325.

[Info] Cheng, Fan-Ting. »臺灣慰安婦劇場: 論同黨劇團《燃燒的蝴蝶》之內褶交織與戲史轉譯 .« 戲劇研究 35 (2025): 31-60.

[Info] Coopey, Louise. »Representing Sex Workers: The Experiences of Shae, Ros and Daisy in Game of Thrones (2011–2019).« Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism. Edited by Ellie Tomsett et al. Cham 2024: 283-303.

[Info] Coopey, Louise. »A Song of Virtue and Vice: The Impact of Class on Rape Narratives in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019).« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 40-52.

[Info] Culas, Sofia. »Women as the 'Other': The erasure of comfort women within Malaysia's National Narrative.« Teaching History 59 (2025): 42-48.

[Info] Dash, Samikhya, et al. »Rape, Trauma, and Romanticized Recuperation: An Evaluation of Omung Kumar’s BhoomiQuarterly Review of Film and Video (May 6, 2025).

[Info] Deffenbacher, Kristina. »Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction.« The Journal of Popular Culture 47 (2014): 923-936.

[Info] Demets, Lisa. »Moral Injury and the Implicit or Explicit Language of Sexual Violence during Warfare in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Chronicles.« Renaissance and Reformation 48 (2025).

[Info] DeMocker, Charles. »Truth, Not Accuracy: Native American Fiction vs. White Settler Colonialism.« Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 9 (2023): 186-196.

[Info] Eddy, Zoë A. »“Some were prostitutes … others were ordinary women”: Memories, Mediation, and Sexual Violence in the True Crime Genre.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 9-25.

[Info] Ettawy, Mohamed. »Analysis of Crime and Accident Coverage in Egyptian Press in Late Mubarak’s Rule.« Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 18 (2025): 64-110.

[Info] Evans, Bonnie. »Rape and Revenge (2017): The male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film.« Continuum (May 2, 2025).

[Info] Froude, Eve. »Watching Water: Waves of Violence and #MeToo.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 90-100.

[Info] Greer, Pierce. »Lost out at Sea on “Floating Palaces”: Examining the Overlooked Tale of the Ocean Liner Stewardess, 1890–1919.« Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 11 (2025): 226-248.

[Info] Hansen, Hannah. »“I’m as innocent as any straight, middle-aged man there is”: #MeToo, Rape Culture, and Masculinity in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 77-89.

[Info] Jenkins, Joy, et al. »“A gut punch to the soul”: Fan Responses to Rape Depictions in Popular TV Shows.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 153-172.

[Info] Johinke, Rebecca. »“One woman’s terrorist is another woman’s liberator”: Dietland, #MeToo, and Rape Revenge.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 111-122.

[Info] Konrad, Tatiana. »Debunking Rape Myths: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and #MeToo in Unbelievable#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 53-64.

[Info] Lehman, Katherine J. »From “Good Girls” to Vigilantes: Feminist Representation and Production in #MeToo Television.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 123-134.

[Info] Owen, Rose A. »A World without Men: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Uses of Violence.« New Political Science 44 (2022): 105-121.

[Info] Owen, Rose A. »“A New Kind of Death”: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought.« Political Theory 52 (2024): 754-781.

[Info] Patrick, Stephanie, et al., eds. The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Cham 2022.

[Info] Reynolds, Rachel R., et al. »Television Production, #MeToo, and Gendered Challenges in Representing Rape.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 135-152.

[Info] Salman, Doddy, et al. »News Narrative of The May 1998 Tragedy: Comparative Analysis of Editorials in Kompas, Republika, and Suara Karya (1999-2008).« Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2024). Edited by Septyanto G. Prakoso et al. Paris 2025: 138-146.

[Info] Santos Meza, Melissa A., et al. Alteraciones psicológicas en víctimas de explotación sexual: Una revisión de estudios científicos (2010-2022). Trabajo de grado, Universitaria del Caribe, 2024.

[Info] Schraut, Sylvia, ed. Sexueller Missbrauch im Bistum Speyer seit 1946. Teilstudie 1: Strukturen, Konstellationen, Hintergründe. Mannheim 2025.

[Info] Schwarzmann, Gabrielle S. An ‘Emotional Ecology’ of Sexual Violence in Late Medieval England, c.1250-1500. Ph.D. Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2024.

[Info] Sharma, Ishita. »Japan’s Perception of Women: The Case of Kurosawa’s Rashomon.« International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9 (2024): 104-107.

[Info] Smith, Sydney L. »Beyond the Weapon of War: Rethinking Gendered Narratives of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.« Journal of Public and International Affairs (April 23, 2025).

[Info] Sree, Raj. »Trauma of Incest and Child Sexual Abuse in Mahesh Dattani’s 30 Days in September.« Samyuktha 11 (2011).

[Info] Swanson, Alexandra. »“Bluebeard’s Castle”: Reconsidering Romance and Revenge in Netflix’s You#MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 101-110.

[Info] Tarachand, Ajwani N., et al. »Psychology of Dystopian Mass: A Study of Sowmya Rajendran’s The LessonInternational Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10 (2025): 247-253.

[Info] Tsukamoto, Sachiyo. »Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects.« Women's History Review (April 28, 2025).

[Info] Van Der Meer, Kästle. “When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps. M.A. Thesis, University of Victoria, 2022.

[Info] Velumani, Sandya, et al. »The Intersection of Masculinity and Rape Culture: Studying the Novel The Temple Bar Woman in Feminist Lens.« International Journal of Research Culture Society 9 (2025): 80-83.

[Info] West, Brandon. Revulsion: The Paradox of Disgust in the Rape-Revenge Narrative. Wilmington 2025.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Alcalá Galán, Mercedes, chair. »The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature I: Terms and Myths.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Arraiza-Rivera, Antonio J. »“También son alguien las mujeres”: Gender, Readership, and Violence in Solís’s Hermafrodito y Sálmacis71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Baxmann, Matthias, et al., prod. »Mein Vater war Russe: Ein unerzähltes Kapitel der Nachkriegsgeschichte.« Feature. Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2025.

[Info] Boyle, Margaret E. »Feminists writing with and against Cervantes.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Cairns, Emily C. »Unconscious Victims, Sexual Violence, and Marginal Figures in Cervantes and Zayas.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Caplan, Alison. »The Power of Polysemy: Protest Strategies in Cervantes.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Diaz-Burgos, Ana M. »Seemingly Unimportant: An Elliptical Reading of Female Perversity.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Du, Wanxin. »Disputes and Negotiation in Sienese Criminal Appeals, 1603–51.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Hicks-Bartlett, Alani R. »Language, Imagined Action, and the Imbrication of Political and Sexual Violence in Calderón’s Uxoricide Plays.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Huse, Ann A. »Marvell’s “Nymph Complaining” and Sexual Violence.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Jennings, Lisa. »Interrogating Spenser’s Depiction of Rape in The Faerie Queene as the Apotheotic Necessity of Art.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Katz, Jordan. »Sexual Violence, Blank Spaces, and Jewish Women’s Erasure in the Archives.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Nelson, Bradley. »Sexual Violence, Trauma Therapy, and Disinformation: Phantoms of Trauma in Cervantes.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Ohmer, Sarah. »Raped of their Motherhood? Decolonizing Trauma Studies with Morrison’s Beloved, Condé’s Tituba, and Evaristo’s Ponciá VicencioAnnual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans 2010.

[Info] Oladosu, Olayinka. »Sexualized Violence and Nigerian Film: Interrogating October 1.« Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago 2020.

[Info] Ong, Nicole. »Guilt, Gaps and Gardening: Bearing Witness to a Comfort Woman in The Garden of Evening Mists.« Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Virtual 2022.

[Info] Owen, Rose. »“A new kind of death”: Sex, Rape, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought.« Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago 2023.

[Info] Perez-Villanueva, Sonia. »Perverse Agency in La fuerza de la sangre: Leocadia and the Third Space.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Quinan, Christine. »Torture, Rape, Humiliation: Reading Algeria and Iraq Diffractively.« Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver 2011.

[Info] Rasbridge, Victoria. »Lending Body, Giving Voice: Performing Unspeakable Violence on the Early Modern Spanish Stage.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Rhodes, Elizabeth. »Love as Palimpsest for Abuse in Early Modern Texts.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Ana M. »Tortured Bodies, Kidnapped Lives: Violence Against Women in Spanish Texts and Society.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Slater, John, chair. »The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature III: Reversals and Contestations.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Spragins, Elizabeth L., chair. »The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature II: Justifications and Technologies.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Spragins, Elizabeth L., org. »Perverse Cervantes: Sexual Violence, Depravity, and Voyeurism.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Spragins, Elizabeth L. »Substituting White Bodies for Black in Micomicón: The Perversity of Race in Don Quijote.« 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Valencia, Felipe. »Maritornes, the Right to Sex, and the Matter of Angelica in Cervantes’s Don Quijote71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Boston 2025.

[Info] Van Der Meer, Kästle. »“When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps.« nternational Congress on Women in A Global World IV. Hybrid 2024.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Beliveau, Ralph, et al., eds. #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Jefferson 2025.


2. Speaker Index

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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: -

2. Cases: Fictional Offenders: Si Bechir, Don Quijote | Fictional Victims: Khédidja, Maritornes, Zhora | Real Offenders: William J. Elliot, James Halon, Eugene Hannel, William Johnson, John Locker, Jaroslav Papež, Andrew J. Smith | Real Victims: Grace Barnes, Lucy Batkins, Kate Brooks, Rebecca Ann Cradle, Jennie Greene, Violet Jessop, Rachel

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: Narratives: Titanic Survivor

6. Society: Women's Movement: Andrea Dworkin, Valerie Solanas

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Films: Bhoomi, Dietland, Mad Men, October 1, Rachida, The Morning Show, Ravished Armenia, You | Literary Texts: Jessica Bird, Patricia Briggs, Kresley Cole, Conceição Evaristo, Christine Feehan, María Folguera, Larissa Ione, Andrew Marvell, Sujatha Parashar, Nicole D. Peeler, Francisco de Quevedo, Rosemary Rogers, Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Tan Twan Eng | Press: The Daily Review, Kompas, Republika, Suara Karya