Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

+ Medieval History

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Geographical Index

+ African History

+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

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Topical Index

+ Prosecution

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+ Society

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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - AUGUST 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Balfour, Lindsay A. »#TimesUp for Siri and Alexa: Sexual Violence and the Digital Domestic.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 163-177.

[Info] Beyer, Charlotte. Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo. London 2025.

[Info] Coopey, Louise. »Sexual Violence and Smallfolk: The Exploitation of the Sex Worker in Game of ThronesThe Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 47-62.

[Info] Harris, Carissa M. »‘Resistence Makyng’: Resisting Rape in Premodern England and Scotland.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 37-53.

[Info] Hellriegel, Lisa. »‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Inter-War Period Tell Us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence.« German Historical Institute London Blog. (June 25, 2025).

[Info] Hopkins, Lisa. »Poison Ivy, Wild Things and Other Erotic Teen Thrillers of the 1990s: The Class-Shamed “Evil” Other of Hypersexualized Girl Power.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 25-46.

[Info] Mukherjee, Sreyashi, et al. »“You Can’t Force Someone to Want You”: Investigating Consent, Tokenism, and Play in Reality Dating Shows.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 123-142.

[Info] Ng, Jenna. »Where the Violence Lies: Re-reading Rape and Revenge in Freeze Me (Takashi Ishii, 2000).« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 179-201.

[Info] Patrick, Stephanie. »Afterword: Destroying the Cycle?.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 225–241.

[Info] Patrick, Stephanie, et al. »Introduction.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 1-23.

[Info] Patrick, Stephanie. »Uneasy Listening: True Crime and Structural State Violence in Public Podcasting.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 203-224.

[Info] Petit-Thorne, Alexandria. »You Too: The Class-Shamed “Evil” Other of Hypersexualized Girl Power.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 63-78.

[Info] Price, Basil A. »Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla sagaReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 93-107.

[Info] Proulx, Melanie. »Sexual Violence in Testimonial Stand-Up Comedy: A Case Study of Rape Is Real and Everywhere (2017).« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 143-161.

[Info] Rajiva, Mythili. »“The Devil Made Me Do It”: Jessica Jones as White Feminist Hauntology.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 79-99.

[Info] Robertson, Elizabeth. »Afterword: Ambiguities of Consent and Forms of Resistance to Rape.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 289-296.

[Info] Rodier, Kristin. »Taking What You Can Get and Taking Care of Yourself: Mapping Fat Women’s Sexual Agency Through Television Stereotypes.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 101-122.

[Info] Sgouros, Timi. »Shades of Coercion in Medieval Exempla: Adaptations of ‘The Nun who Saw the World’.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 255-270.

[Info] Taylor, Emmet. »Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 147-161.

[Info] Watt, Caitlin G. »‘Thy Womb Will Avenge Thee’: Olympias, Revenge, and Consent in Medieval Alexander the Great Narratives.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 271-287.

[Info] Wilson, Alexander, et al. »‘Sa vesteüre ala saisir, | Par tant la cuide retenir’: Clothing and Coercion in the Bathing Scenes of Medieval Romance.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 201-216.

[Info] Wilson, Rowan. »‘You do not get to consent to yourself, even if you might deserve the chance’: Nature’s Coercion and Transgender Volition in Le Roman de Silence« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 73-91.

[Info] Wood, Lucas. »‘That love should be love’s recompense’: Courtly Seduction, Compulsory Compassion, and Coercive Desire in Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 55-71.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Johnson, Sharon P. »Saying NO! to Rape: Narratives of Trauma, Healing and Resistance in 19th- and 21st-Century France.« 51st Annual Meeting of the Global Consortium for French Historical Studies. Paris 2025.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Bildhauer, Bettina. »Sexualised Violence by a Woman against a Boy: Upsetting the Binary Gender Hierarchy in Of the Seven MastersReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 129-146.

[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: 17-34.

[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: 111-127.

[Info] Bonsall, Jane, et al., eds. Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Turnhout 2025.

[Info] Delmolino, Jane. »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: 165-180.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South. Chapel Hill 2024.

[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] Saha, Debadrita. »Women’s (Absent) Consent and (Culturally Sanctioned) Coercion in Medieval Bengali Literature: Chandimangal and SatiMaynaReconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 235-253.

[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: 219-234.

[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: 181-199.


2. Speaker Index

[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.



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: David McCall; Fictional Victims: Diocletian, Margo Masse, Ros | Real Offenders: William de Cattesden, Walter Garglof, William le Sawiere, Nicholas of Whatcomb | Real Victims: Margery de la Hulle, Margery (daughter of Walter), Cristina le Menstre, Emmy Toky

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: -

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Films: Bridesmaids, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fear, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Homeland, Louie, The Office, Poison Ivy, The Sopranos, This Is Us, Wild Things | Literary Texts: 1. Authors: Mukundaram Chakravarti Gautier de Coincy, Y.A. Erskine, Heather J. Fitt, Daulat Kazi, Allison Leotta, Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö; 2. Texts: Alexander Romance, All to lufe and nocht to fenyie, Friedrich von Schwaben, Graelent, Guingamor, Longes mac nUislenn, Þiðreks saga af Bern, Le Roman de Silence, Sir Beues of Hamtoun, Still undir the levis grene Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne | Radio: Missing and Murdered, Uncover | Religious Texts: Johannes Busch, Caesarius of Heisterbach