Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

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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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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - JULY 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Bobikiewicz, Lilian. »Memory, Technology and Reconciliation in the Case of the ‘Halmonis’.« The Grimshaw Review of International Affairs 2 (2025): 166-180.

[Info] Chenier, Kate, et al. »Historical child sexual abuse cases reported to the police by Indigenous adults in a northern Canadian territory: An exploration of factors affecting the likelihood of charges and convictions.« Journal of Sexual Aggression (March 26, 2024).

[Info] Cross, Alicia. The Horror of Rape on Cable TV: Exploring Rape Narratives in American Horror Story and The Walking Dead. M.A. Thesis, Concordia University, 2016.

[Info] Dalel, Berraf H.L. Re-creational Eyewitnessing and the Representation of the Me Too Movement in Contemporary American Films. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Szeged, 2025.

[Info] Dalino, Candice. »René Magrittes ‘Les jours gigantesques’: Un féministe avant la lettre?« Pro Memorie. 27 (2025): 134-174.

[Info] Dando, Keith. Power, corruption, exploitation and abuse in the early film industry. Ph.D. Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2025.

[Info] Divya, R., et al. »Sexual harassment complaints across BSE100 companies: A longitudinal dataset (2013–2023).« BMC Research Notes. 18(227) (May 22, 2025).

[Info] Eriksson. Anna-Karin. »Exploiting humiliation: Politics as history in the ‘comfort women’ issue.« Feminist Theory (June 5, 2025).

[Info] Ermacora, Matteo. »Occupation during and after the War (Italy).« 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Edited by Ute Daniel et al. Berlin, 2021.

[Info] Goun, Kim. »참상을 기록하는 이미지와 구성적 기억: ‘위안부’ 기억과 영상 매체의 변화를 중심으로.« 문학과 영상 26 (2025): 7-36.

[Info] Hao, Xiaoyang, et al. »Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo.« Women's History Review (April 22, 2025).

[Info] Kennedy, Allan. »Prosecuting Rape in Seventeenth-century Scotland.« Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. 45 (2025): 48-67.

[Info] Lim, Yiru, et al., eds. Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. New York 2025.

[Info] Miller, Zoë. »The Radical Potential of Eliot’s Unstable Rape Metaphors: A Re-Reading of the Typist’s Assault.« The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 7 (2025): 155-172.

[Info] Njung, George N. Soldiers of their Own: Honor, Violence, Resistance and Conscription in Colonial Cameroon during the First World War. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2016.

[Info] O’Mahony, Megan. »Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Museological visibilities at the Imperial War Museum.« Memory Studies (2024).

[Info] Ong, Nicole. »Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the TongueReading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World. Edited by Yiru Lim et al. New York 2025: 178-190.

[Info] Pereira, Lindsay. From A Rhetoric of Ravishment to A Rhetoric of Rape: Sir Thomas Malory’s Linguistic Shift in the Bedtricks of Le Morte Darthur. M.A. Thesis, Concordia University, 2024.

[Info] Reeves, Audrey, et al. »Curating conflict-related sexual violence: Gender, politics and memory at war museums.« Journal of Gender Studies (May 15, 2025).

[Info] Regoli, Roberto. Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI. South Bend 2024.

[Info] Saxena, Anisha. »Sexual Violence in Premodern South Asian Literature: Unsavory Heritage.« The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender. Edited by Jenna C. Ashton. London 2025: 201-211.

[Info] Scotto di Carlo, Giuseppina. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage. Cham 2025.

[Info] Sun, Yixin. »Visualizing Trauma Memory Trough Surreal Techniques.« animationstudies 2.0 (May 20, 2025).

[Info] Wang, Q. Edward. »The Study of ‘Comfort Women’: Revealing a Hidden Past—Introduction.« Chinese Studies in History. 43 (2020): 1-5.

[Info] Yi, Karen L.Y. The Broken Bodies of Language and History in Vyvane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue. M.A. Thesis, Nanyang Technological University, 2020.

[Info] Zhu, Yujie. »Curating War Memory under Constraint: The Chinese ‘Comfort Women’ Museum and the Politics of Remembrance.« International Journal of Cultural Policy (June 4, 2025).


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Bouchet, Marie, et al., org. Les soixante ans de Lolita. Paris 2015.

[Info] Gibbs, Charlotte. »“The helpers were the dogs”: Researching Sexual Violence and Non-Human Animals in Auschwitz through Digital Holocaust Archives.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.

[Info] Goldberg, Eric J. »The Problem of Rapine in Carolingian Capitularies.« 32nd International Medieval Congress. Boston 2025.

[Info] Pereira, Lindsay. »What Is the Position of Rape within the Chivalric Code? Learning through Trauma Narratives.« 32nd International Medieval Congress. Virtual 2025.

[Info] Todd, Lisa, mod. »Against the Archival Grain: (Re-)Reading Testimonies of Sexual and Sexualized Violence in War, Occupation and Genocide, 1918-1945.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.

[Info] Torres-Kilgannon, Kara. »A footnote in history: Sexual violence against Jewish women in camps during the Holocaust.« Graduate and PhD Student Online Seminar Series on Jewish History, Culture, Heritage, and Memory in Eastern Europe. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Torres-Kilgannon, Kara. »Seeking the Truth: Sexual Violence in Auschwitz and The Role of Interviewers in Gathering Postwar Testimony.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.

[Info] Vigneault, Sara-Jane. »(Re)Framing Coercion: Sexual Violence and France’s Plasticity of Race during the Rhineland Occupation, 1918-1924.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Carrell, Jessica. Indicted Knights: Female Agency and the Adjudication of Rape in Arthurian Romances. B.A. Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 2018.

[Info] Künzel, Christine, et al, eds. Rape and Revenge: Rache-Kulturen und sexualisierte Gewalt in intermedialer Perspektive. Göttingen 2024.


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: Bastien, Zoe Benson, Archie Brener, Gorman, Alicia Spencer, Kyle Spencer | Fictional Victims: Archie Brener, Beth Greene, Joan, Han Ling-li, Madison Montgomery, Queenie, Kyle Spencer | Mythological Offenders: Ānanda, Arthur, Elaine of Corbenic, Daṇḍa, Indra | Mythological Victims: Ahalya, Arja, Bandhumati, Lancelot, Morgause, Rambha, Uppalavannā, Vedavatī | Real Offenders: Heinrich Leist

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: Museums: Imperial War Museum, National Museum of American History

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Art: Peter Howson | Films: The Assistant, Bombshell, She Said, Tár, The Walking Dead | Literary Texts: Vyvyane Loh | Religious Texts: Antagada Daso, Dhammapada, Vinaya Pitaka