Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2026

I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Abdelkrim, Ladjadj, et al. »The role of judicial mechanisms in compensating Algerian women victim of crimes against humanity committed by the French occupation.« Journal of Legal and Economic Studies 8 (2025): 1096-1109.

[Info] Andersson, Viktor, et al. En tematisk analys om framställningen av människohandel för sexuella ändamål i filmerna Taken (2008), Skin Trade (2014) & Ruthless (2023). Examensarbete, Högskolan i Gävle, 2025.

[Info] Andrijauskaitė, Ugnė M. »Sexual Harassment and Violence Against Women in the Workplace in 1920s–1930s Lithuania.« Istorija 115 (2019): 52-65.

[Info] Astashkevich, Irina. »The Carnival and the Trickster: A Case Study of the Horodziej Pogrom, July 1920.« Polin 38 (2026): 289-306.

[Info] Bajić, Nikolina H., et al. »Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Croatia: Cases but Not (Yet?) Scandals.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 205-221.

[Info] Barbosa, Andréa, et al. »Sexual Violence Against Female Children and Adolescents in Brazil (2011-2021), in the Light of Intersectionality.« Baraúnas 3 (2025): 451-469.

[Info] Barbosa, Andréa, et al. »Violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes do gênero feminino no Brasil, entre 2011 e 2021, à luz da interseccionalidade.« Baraúnas 3 (2025): 428-450.

[Info] Basannavar, Nick. »Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–2012.« Women's History Review 32 (2023): 977-995.

[Info] Beecher, Ruth. »Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher.« Women's History Review 32 (2023): 1059-1071.

[Info] Béraud, Céline, et al. »From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An Introduction.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 1-15.

[Info] Béraud, Céline. »The Sauvé Report: What’s Next? Anatomy of the French Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 94-109.

[Info] Black, Daisy, et al. »‘Jeust twa folk ken’: Adapting and Performing The Seven Sages of ScotlandOpen Library of Humanities Journal 11 (2025): 1-26.

[Info] Blackburn, Kevin. »The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory.« Women's History Review 34 (2025): 701-719.

[Info] Byrne, Rosemary. »“Hints” of Sexual Violence: What the Akayesu Trial Archive at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Tells Us About Uncovering Sexual Violence Testimony in Conflict Archives.« Law and History Review 43 (2025): 317-338.

[Info] Černevičiūtė, Sigita. »Smurtas prieš moteris: seksualiniai nusikaltimai ir jų prevencijos idėjos Lietuvoje 1918–1940 m.« Istorija 117 (2020): 24-46.

[Info] Černevičiūtė, Sigita. »Smurtaujantys kariai: seksualinis smurtas prieš moteris Lietuvoje 1919–1940 m.« Istorija 124 (2021): 58-77.

[Info] Cheah, W.L. »Women on the Death Railway: A Microhistory of Victimization and Agency.« Law and History Review 43 (2025): 301-316.

[Info] Conway, Brian. »Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Catholicism: Centering the Role of the Vatican.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 56-74.

[Info] Córdoba-Arroyo, Esteban. »Shifting memories in vignettes: Depictions of World War II in gakushū manga and their impact on Japanese nationalism and pacifism.« Memory, Mind & Media 5 (2025): 1-16.

[Info] Cosgrave, Elinor G. Captive-taking in the Late Roman Republic and Early Principate: Historical Realities and Elite Representations. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, 2021.

[Info] Dahlmans, Sonja. A Life in the Shadow of the Cross: Gender-based violence in Early Christian Martyr Stories. M.A. Thesis, Universiteit Nijmegen, 2024.

[Info] Douteau, Clémence. »An Aborted Scandal? Denunciatory Discourse and Media Marginalization of Sexually Abused Nuns in France.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 166-184.

[Info] Džiho-Šator, Aida. »Književnost memorijalizacije – ratno silovanje, rodno nasilje i trauma u romanu Škriptaji kože Amile Kahrović Posavljak.« Društvene i humanističke studije 10 (2025): 233-254.

[Info] Faggioli, Massimo. »From ‘Clergy Sexual Abuse’ to a More Comprehensive Concept of Abuse in the Catholic Church: Major Cultural and Social Shifts in the USA.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 38-55.

[Info] Gärtner, Stefan. »Sexual Abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 75-93.

[Info] Ghafoerkhan, Rina, et al. »The nexus between conflict-related sexual violence and trafficking for sexual exploitation in times of conflict.« Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation 3 (2019): 9-33.

[Info] Goldberg, Simon. »„Motherys Sako“: Seksualinis smurtas Kauno gete.« 80-čiai metų nuo Kauno geto sunaikinimo praėjus - ką atsimename, ko pasimokėme?. Kaunas 2025: 42-56.

[Info] Goldberg, Simon. »“The Women are saying”: Sexual Violence in the Kaunas Ghetto.« 80 Years after the Destruction of the Kaunas Ghetto - What Do We Remember, What Have We Learnt?. Kaunas 2025: 213-227.

[Info] Gray, Morgan. Beyond Honor: Historicizing Sexual Coercion in Late Colonial Lima, 1750-1821. Ph.D. Thesis, Florida International University, 2022.

[Info] Gray, Morgan. »Reciprocal Contracts: Reconstructing Sexual Consent in Late Colonial Lima.« The Latin Americanist 69 (2025): 348-372.

[Info] Guglielmi, Marco. »A (Non)Disruptive Scandal? The Fragmented Societalization of the Problem of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 185-204.

[Info] Hammer, Hilke. »„Proletarische Frauen, seid bereit!“ Antimilitaristische Agitation proletarischer Frauen in der Zeitschrift Die Gleichheit (1892-1923).« medien & zeit 40 (2025): 4-13.

[Info] Hess, Hendrik, et al., eds. Sexualitäten im Mittelalter: Normen und Devianz, Phantasien und Praktiken. Heidelberg 2025.

[Info] Introvigne, Massimo. »Sacred Eroticism within the Catholic Church: The Philippe Family, Jean Vanier, and Their Secret Society.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 222-237.

[Info] Keyse, Rhian E. »‘A very sensitive Rwandan woman’: Sexual violence, history, and gendered narratives in the trial of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, 2001-2011.« Women's History Review 32 (2023): 1015-1039.

[Info] Keyse, Rhian E., et al., eds. Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity. Cham 2026.

[Info] Kilroy, Ciara. »Beyond Precedent: Sexual Violence as an Act of Genocide in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.« Peace and Conflict Studies 32 (2025): 1-23.

[Info] Lee, Jung-Sil. »Colonized bodies: Intersectional women’s movements of Korea and the Korean diaspora in the U.S..« Women's History Review 34 (2025): 810-835.

[Info] Leuner, Sara. »“A parcel of popish, rubbishing people”: Moral, Cultural and Sexual Corruption in Eighteenth-Century English Rape Trials through the Joint Prisms of Francophilia and Francophobia.« XVII-XVIII No. 82 (2025).

[Info] Martínez-Ariño, Julia. »“It Is the Abuses That Made Me Click”: Formal Disaffiliation as Mobilization against the Catholic Church.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 127-144.

[Info] Matić, Uroš. »Archaeology of Genital Mutilation: Disabled Masculinity of Libyan Enemies in the Egyptian New Kingdom.« Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays. Edited by Alexandra F. Morris et al. London 2025: 310-328.

[Info] McCurry, Stephanie. »Ku Klux Klan Violence and the Problem of Evidence.« Law and History Review 43 (2025): 239-257.

[Info] McMillan, Lesley, et al. »The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts.« Women's History Review 32 (2023): 1040-1058.

[Info] Meunier, E.-Martin, et al. »The Catholic Church and the Scandal of Indigenous Unmarked Graves: A Catalyst of Social, Political and Historical Tensions towards Catholicism in Canada.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 238-263.

[Info] Moshövel, Andrea. »Lexikographische Einblicke in das Sprechen über Sexuelles im Frühneuhochdeutschen.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 451-468.

[Info] Murray, Rebecca K., et al. »Missing Incidents and Masking Scandals: Religious Orders’ Swiss Cheese Organization and Neutralization Techniques.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 110-126.

[Info] Novak, Royce. »Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: History without memory.« Women's History Review 34 (2025): 720-746.

[Info] Ohlmeyer, Jane. »Women and Sexual Violence in the “1641 Depositions”.« Law and History Review 43 (2025): 221-238.

[Info] Opatrný, Michal. »Clerical Offenders as Family Friends: A Pilot Study of Case-to-Scandal Dynamics in Czechia Using Open-Source Data.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 264-280.

[Info] Paulovicova, Nina, et al, eds. Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946. West Lafayette 2025.

[Info] Portier, Philippe. »Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church in Franc: Contribution to the Sociology of a Scandal.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 16-37.

[Info] Ratajczak, Magdalena. »Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland: The he Role of Media and Cinema.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 281-296.

[Info] Redfern, Rebecca. »Gendered Violence in Iron Age and Roman Britain.« The Cambridge World History of Violence. Vol. 1. Edited by Garrett G. Fagan et al. Cambridge 2025: 320-341.

[Info] Sbalchiero, Stefano, et al. »From Cases to Scandals? Media Representations of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 145-165.

[Info] Siyi, Wang. »Memorials and memory: The curation and interpretation of trauma narratives—using the examples of exhibitions on the theme of “comfort women” in East Asian Society« Chinese Studies in History 53 (2020): 56-71.

[Info] Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine, et al. »Sexuelle Selbstermächtigung und sexualisierte Gewalt im ‚Nonnenturnier‘ und im ‚Rosendorn‘.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 381-404.

[Info] Turek, Jacqueline. »Uneheliche Schwangerschaften und weiblicher Gesindedienst im vormodernen Nürnberg: Eine Untersuchung zu Klagen von schwangeren Mägden vor städtischen Gerichten.« Das Mittelalter 30 (2025): 336-359.

[Info] Waligórska, Magdalena. »Anti-Jewish Violence of Polish Troops, 1918–1920: The Case of Bobruisk.« East European Jewish Affairs 52 (2022): 30-47.

[Info] Waligórska, Magdalena. »Intimate Dispossession as a Form of Violence: Plunder of Jewish Personal Belongings in East-Central Europe.« Journal of Modern European History (2025).

[Info] Wang, Elise. The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature. Oxford 2024.

[Info] Weng, Julie M. »James Joyce’s Encounter with Sexual Harassment.« James Joyce Quarterly 62 (2025): 249-272.

[Info] Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, et al. »The Patriarchs: The origins of inequality.« Women's History Review 32 (2023): 1072-1077.

[Info] Zhiliang, Su. »New evidence of the wartime sex slave system implemented by Japan—Reading the archives on the “comfort women” of the Kwantung Army.« Chinese Studies in History 53 (2020): 6-13.

[Info] Zhiliang, Suu, et al. »A valuable document revealing the Japanese army's “comfort stations”: Reading the Jinhua Gyerim Association articles and register.« Chinese Studies in History 53 (2020): 14-27.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Aprile, Lucia. »L’onore perduto: Violenza sessuale e conflitto armato nel Mezzogiorno post-unitario (1860-1865).« Storie in corso: XIX Seminario Nazionale Dottorandi Sissco. Siena 2025.

[Info] Rüschenschmidt, David. »Aufarbeitung – Sexueller Missbrauch in der katholischen Kirche.« Hörsaal. Deutschlandfunk Nova 2026.

[Info] Weng, Julie M. »James Joyce’s Encounter with Sexual Harassment.« Lecture / James Joyce Society. New York 2025.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Aprile, Lucia. »Il dottore in guerra: violenze sessuali e saperi medico-legali nel Mezzogiorno in armi (1860-1865).« Rassegna storica del Risorgimento 112 (2025): 126-146.

[Info] Byrne, Rosemary, et al., eds. Archives of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones. Cambridge 2025.

[Info] Davies, Hannah C. Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik 1973 bis 1997. Hamburg 2025.

[Info] Fernández Soto, Alba. “Tis a Shame to Live”: The Loss of Feminine Virtue and “la Honra” in the Stage Plays of the Golden Age in England and Spain. Trabajo Fin de Máster, Universidad de Valladolid, 2025.

[Info] Pyy, Elina, ed. Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian World. Rome 2025.

[Info] Vaage, Margrethe B. The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television: Rape-Revenge and Women’s Anger. Edinburgh 2024.


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

1. Chronological Index

Ancient History: African History: Libyan History, Punic History | Asian History: Anatolian History | European History: Celtic History, Gallic History


2. Topical Index

1. Prosecution: Trials: Singapore War Crimes Trials

2. Cases: Real Offenders: Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, Daniel Lackey, Alfred Musema, Laurent Semanza, Onodera Shoji, Jean Vanier | Real Victims: Agatha, Christian Streeter

3. Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Boxer Rebellion, Gallic Wars, Libyan Wars, Punic Wars, Roman Civil Wars, Roman Conquest of Britain

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: -

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Films: Ruthless, Skin Trade | Historiography: Julius Caesar, Cassius Dio | Literary Texts: 1. Authors: Amile Kahrović Posavljak; 2. Texts: Nonnenturnier, Rosendorn | Religious Texts: Prudentius