Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Announcements: Updates
UPDATE - OCTOBER 2025

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Abisaab, Malek. »The Weaponization of Rape in the Lebanese Civil War: The Massacre of Sabra-Shatila, September 1982.« Contemporary Arab Affairs 18 (2025): 429-446.

[Info] Armenti, Daniel M. Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, 2020.

[Info] Armenti, Daniel M. »Philomela’s Cloth: Reading Authority Back into a Survivor’s Account.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 58-71.

[Info] Banda, Zuze J. »Do men restore vulnerable women’s dignity and sanctity by mutilating their bodies? A paradox of gender-based violence and femicide in Judges 19–21.« HTS Teologiese Studies 81(1) (2025).

[Info] Berndt, Katharina. »#MeToo.« Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Edited by Joshua J. Kassner et al. Berlin 2025.

[Info] Blanshard, Alastair J.L. »Recovering Rape and Sexual Violence in the Peloponnesian War .« Reassessing the Peloponnesian War. Edited by Samuel Gartland et al. Cambridge 2025: 249-271.

[Info] Busse, Kristina, et al. »Pon Farr, sexuelle Gewalt und die politischen Dimensionen der Fantasie.« In Texten wildern: Slash oder die Erotisierung fiktiver Stoffe durch Fangemeinden. Edited by Anne Eßer. Berlin 2025.

[Info] Byrne, Rosemary, et al. »Archives of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones.« Law and History Review (August 18, 2025).

[Info] Cawsey, Kathy. »Florilegium’s Special Issue on Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 1-3.

[Info] Cawsey, Kathy. »The Grammar of Rape in Chaucer and Gower.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 72-88.

[Info] Cawsey, Kathy, ed. Sexualized and Gendered Violence in the Middle Ages. Toronto 2025.

[Info] Church, Lindsay. »Raptus, Ravishment, and “Self-Divorce”: The Heterotopic Space of Malory’s Morgan le Fay.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 102-114.

[Info] Cook, Nina E. »“A most wicked jest”: Titillation, Rape Jokes, and the Ethics of Laughter in PamelaStudies in the Novel 57 (2025): 257-273.

[Info] Dreßing, H., et al. »Sexueller Missbrauch von Kindern auch durch Frauen? tudienprotokoll einer Untersuchung in einem katholischen Frauenorden (MKF-Studie).« Der Nervenarzt (August 20, 2025).

[Info] Foster, Gavin. »Judith, Éowyn, and the Alloying Effects of Sexualized Violence.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 115-127.

[Info] Friedman, Sarah. »Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer's The Physician's Tale and Gower's Confessio AmantisEssays in Medieval Studies 37 (2022): 65-80.

[Info] Fries, Kenny, et al. »‘I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening': Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust. A Conversation.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 181-205.

[Info] Gartland, Samuel. »War, Territory, Sexual Violence and Citizenship in Aristophanes.« Aristophanes and the Current Moment: The Politics. Edited by Samuel Gartland. London 2025: 43-64.

[Info] Glowacka, Dorota, et al., eds. Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust. London 2024.

[Info] Glowacka, Dorota, et al. »Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: On the Importance of Writing this History Today.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 173-180.

[Info] Hanks, Dorrel T. »Blaming the Victim: Stalking and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte DarthurFlorilegium 38 (2025): 89-101.

[Info] Hendrarti, I.M. »Rape or Seduction?« Culturalistics 1 (2017): 31-43.

[Info] Hubé, Nicolas, et al. »Tabloidization of News Rather Than Punitive Turn: Crime and Penal Issues on French and German Newspaper Front Pages (1971–2017).« Impending Challenges to Penal Moderation in France and Germany: A Strained Restraint. Edited by Kirstin Drenkhahn et al. London 2023: 203-224.

[Info] Jones, William R. »‘You are going to be my Bettmann’: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 253-272.

[Info] Jones, Rebecca L. Female Robots and AI in Science Fiction Cinema. Cham 2025.

[Info] Liptak, Paige. Weaponizing Sexual Violence: Variations Between Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Genocidal Rape. Master's Thesis, Wright State University, 2025.

[Info] Mailänder, Elissa. »Visual Pleasures? Wehrmacht Vernacular Trophy Photographs and the Female Other in Nazi-Occupied Europe.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 353-377.

[Info] Maisura, Vivi, et al. »An Analysis of Taboo Language in Hip Hop Song Lyrics.« English Language Teaching Methodology 2 (2025): 214-227.

[Info] Maxwell, Drew. »Misogyny and the BBC: Alisoun’s treatment in Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale and the BBC’s modern adaptation.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 128-139.

[Info] Miller, T.S., et al. »Tolkien and Rape: Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-earth.« Extrapolation 62 (2021): 133-156.

[Info] Morris, Benny. »Collective Sexual Violence in Turkey, 1894–1924: What we know and how we know it.« Law and History Review (August 18, 2025).

[Info] Muzamil, Sania. »War and Memory: Remembering Women’s Bodies in War Through a Reading of Brian De Palma’s Casualties of WarTrauma and Memory Studies: Responses from India and Beyond. Edited by Simi Malhotra et al. Singapore 2025: 199-213.

[Info] Rateliff, John D. »Weird Tolkien (IV): Morgoth Rapes the Sun.« Sacnoth’s Scriptorium (June 27, 2019).

[Info] Ruffio, Claire . »Politiser le ‘crime de l’intime’: Ce que #MeToo fait à la médiatisation du viol en France (2000-2020).« Les violences sexistes après #MeToo. Paris 2022: 71-89.

[Info] Snyder, Carli. »Asking About the ‘Unspeakable’: Joan Ringelheim and Early Research on Sexual Violence and Same-Sex Practices among Women During the Holocaust.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 206-224.

[Info] Vines, Amy N. »“Grab ’em by the Relics”: The Elision of Consent and Selling Salvation with Female Virgin Martyrs Post-Sanctification.« Florilegium 38 (2025): 16-30.

[Info] Wehlau, Ruth. »The Power of Patient Kingship: Supernatural Abduction in Sir Orfeo and the Third Branch of the MabinogiFlorilegium 38 (2025): 4-15.

[Info] Westermann, Edward B. »Crossing the Threshold of Sexual Violence: Sexual Humiliation and the Practice of Performative Masculinity.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 336-351.

[Info] Zühlke, Christin. »‘Shultsloze Ferpeynikte Neshomes’ – ‘Vulnerable, Tormented Souls’: Gendered Wounds, Sexualized Violence, and Jewish Masculinity in the Yiddish Testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 273-291.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Larsen, Kristine. »“The gift which was withheld I take”: The Rape of the Sun Maiden in Tolkien’s Legendarium.« Mythopoeic Society’s Online Midsummer Seminar #4. Virtual 2025.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Blackburn, Kevin. The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory. Singapore 2022.

[Info] Bos, Pascale R. »Barter, Prostitution, Abuse? Reframing Experiences of Sexual Exchange during the Holocaust.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 206-224.

[Info] Eglitis, Daina S. »Silences of Memory: Liberator Sexual Assault in the East at the End of World War II.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 316-335.

[Info] Matkowska, Justyna. »Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Romani Women and Girls in Occupied Poland during World War II.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 292-315.

[Info] Watt, Caitlin G. »The speaking wound: Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the ethics of listening in the #metoo era.« postmedieval 11 (2020): 272-281.


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: Andre, Thomas E. Clark, Rick Deckard, Antonio Dìaz, Elaine of Astolat, Daniel Emerson, Feizal, Herbert Hatcher, Melkor, Merlin, Tony Meserve, Pelleas, Pranata | Fictional Victims: Arien, Ettarde, Gina Inviere, Karmila, Kirana, James T. Kirk, Gaily Morton, Nynive, Thraitta, Tran Thi Oanh, Rachael, Rima | Real Incidents: Incident on Hill 192, Massacre of Sabra and Shatila | Real Victims: Suad

3. Types: Genocidal Rape: Anfal Genocide, Bangladesh Genocide, Bosnian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, Darfur Genocide, East Timor Genocide, Effacer le tableau, Guatemalan Genocide, Ikiza, Iraqi Turkmen genocide, Isaaq genocide | Wartime Sexual Violence: Lebanese Civil War

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: Rape Culture: Misogyny

7. Research: Historiography: Joan Ringelheim

8. Representations: Films: Blade Runner, Eve of Destruction, Steel and Lace, Vice | Literary Texts: 1. Authors: Lestari V., luminousbeings, Marga Tjoa, Mira Widjaja; 2. Texts: Judith | Press: Le Figaro, Le Monde | Song Texts: Cardi B