Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

Introduction

+ Aims & Scope

+ Structure

+ History


Announcements

+ Updates

+ Calls for Papers

+ New Lectures

+ New Publications


Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

+ Medieval History

+ Modern History


Geographical Index

+ African History

+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

+ Oceanian History


Topical Index

+ Prosecution

+ Cases

+ Types

+ Offenders

+ Victims

+ Society

+ Research

+ Representations


Resources

+ Institutions

+ Literature Search

+ Research

Start: Topical Index: Prosecution: Legislation: Modern Legislation:

Prosecution: Legislation:
19TH-CENTURY LAWS

[Site] I n t e r n a t i o n a l   L e g i s l a t i o n


[Site] A f r i c a n   L e g i s l a t i o n

[Site] Egyptian Legislation

[Info] Ruiz, Mario M. Intimate Disputes, Illicit Violence: Gender, Law, and the State in Colonial Egypt, 1849-1923. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2004.


[Site] A m e r i c a n   L e g i s l a t i o n

[Site] Argentine Legislation

[Info] Sedillán, Gisela. »Los delitos sexuales: la ley y la práctica judicial en la Provincia de Buenos Aires durante el período de codificación del derecho penal argentino (1877-1892).« Historia Crítica No. 37 (2009): 100-119.


[Site] Brazilian Legislation

[Info] Cunha, Mônica M., et al. »A justiça em Pernambuco do oitocentos: Os crimes contra a segurança da honra (1831-1850).« LexCult 4 (2020): 259-287.

[Info] Estacheski, Dulceli. Os crimes sexuais na Cidade de Castro – PR (1890-1920).Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2013.

[Info] Estacheski, Dulceli. Crimes sexuais: A histo?rica culpabilizac?a?o das vi?timas. Curitiba 2017.

[Info] Marengo, Sandro, et al. »Edição semidiplomática do interrogatório de um acusado de defloramento (Aracaju, 1876).« Revista Diálogos 8 (2020):175-196.


[Site] Canadian Legislation

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800-92.« Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Vol. 2. Edited by David Flaherty. Toronto 1983: 200-247.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance B. »Nineteenth Century Judicial Attitudes toward Child Custody, Rape and Prostitution.« Equality and Judicial Neutrality. Edited by Sheilah L. Martin et al. Toronto 1987: 271-281.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto 1991.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »A Selected History of Sexual Assault Legislation in Canada, 1892-1983.« Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies. Edited by C. Lesley Biggs et al. Winnipeg 2011: 293-295.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800-92.« Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Vol. 2. Edited by David H. Flaherty. Toronto 2012: 200-247.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance, et al. »A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law.« Canada-United States Law Journal 7 (1984): 173-213.

[Info] Barker, Bobbie J. (Un)Changing Views of Rape and Rapists in the Law, Sociology and Social Constructionist Literature: A Social Constructionist Approach. M.A. Thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1998.

[Info] Drysdale, Janet L. Rape and the Law in Ontario 1892-1930. LL.M. Thesis, York University, 1988.

[Info] MacFarlane, Bruce A. »Historical Development of the Offence of Rape.« 100 Years of the Criminal Code in Canada: Essays Commemorating the Centenary of the Canadian Criminal Code. Edited by Josiah Wood et al. Ottawa 1993: 1-79.


[Site] Chilean Legislation

[Info] Valenzuela Cáceres, Marcelo E. La sodomía en Chile (1875-1928): Una perspectiva desde la criminalidad y la ciencia. Tesis doctoral, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019.

[Info] Valenzuela Cáceres, Marcelo E. »La sodomía en el derecho penal chileno del siglo XIX.« Revista de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos No. 42 (2020): 635-657.


[Site] Colombian Legislation

[Info] Márqzuez Estrada, José W. »Delitos Sexuales y Prática Judicial en Colombia: 1870-1900. Los Casos de Bolívar, Antioquia y Santander.« Palobra No. 13 (2013): 30-48.


[Site] Mexican Legislation

[Info] Flores Méndez, Yessenia. »Violencia contra la mujer, divorcio y relaciones de género en Tamaulipas a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX: Una mirada histórica.« Contribución al análisis de la violencia familiar en Tamaulipas.Edited by Victor Daniel Jurado Flores. Ciudad Victoria 2020: 17-55.

[Info] Lara, Sandra E. "Crimes against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency": Sexual Violence and Jurisprudence in Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931. Ph.D. Thesis, University of New Mexico, 2016.

[Info] Rodríguez Campos, Carlos. »Yucatán y el Delito de Estupro en los últimos 136 años.« Tohil 9 (2008): 1-34.


[Site] U.S. Legislation

Laws: Age-of-Consent Laws

[Info] Backhouse, Constance, et al. »A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law.« Canada-United States Law Journal 7 (1984): 173-213.

[Info] Bardaglio, Peter W. »'Calculated to Excite Indignation in Every Heart': Rape and the Law in the Antebellum South.« 57th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Fort Worth 1991.

[Info] Bardaglio, Peter. »"An Outrage Upon Nature": Incest and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South.« In Joy and in Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900. Edited by Carol Bleser. New York 1991: 32-51.

[Info] Bardaglio, Peter W. »Children, Sexual Violence, and the Law in the New South.« 1995 Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium. Oxford 1995.

[Info] Cunningham, Caitlin A. Intimate invasions: Rape, race, age, and the law in California, 1848-1900. Ph.D. Thesis, Birkbeck, University of London, 2020.

[Info] Geis, Gilbert. »Rape-in-Marriage: Law and Law Reform in England, the United States, and Sweden.« Adelaide Law Review 6 (1978): 284-303.

[Info] Gonda, Susan. Strumpets and Angels: Rape, Seduction, and the Boundaries of Consensual Sex in the Northeast, 1789-1870. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1999.

[Info] Koneval, Joni L. A "Peculiar Offence": Legal, Popular, and Gendered Perceptions of Rape in the Early American Republic, 1790 – 1850. M.A. Thesis, Youngstown State University, 2012.

[Info] Larson, Jane E. »"Even a Worm Will Turn at Last": Rape Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century America« Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 9 (1997): 1-71.

[Info] Nelligan, Peter J. Social Change and Rape Law in Hawaii. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983.

[Info] Sommerville, Diane M. »Rape, Race, and Castration in Slave Law in the Colonial and Early South.« The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. Edited by Catherine Clinton et al. New York 1997: 75-82.


[Site] A s i a n   L e g i s l a t i o n

[Site] Chinese Legislation

Laws: Qing Law


[Site] Indian Legislation

[Info] Arya, Lakshmi. Rape Laws and Trials in Colonial Times (British India and the Princely State of Mysore, 1860-1947). Ph.D. Thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2007.

[Info] Gangoli, Geetanjali, et al. »Political Activism, Legal Discourses and Sexual Violence in India.« e-International Relations (February 6, 2013).

[Info] Ludwig, Manju. »Bodies in pain: Gewalt an sexuell „devianten“ männlichen und Transgender-Körpern im kolonialen Indien.« Peripherie 40 (2020): 125-146.

[Info] McClure, Alastair R. Violence, Sovereignty, and the Making of Colonial Criminal Law in India, 1857-1914. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017.

[Info] Warren, James H. Gender and Sexuality in Colonial Law, India 1830-1862. M.A. Thesis, University of Calgary, 2001.

[Info] Wright, Ashley. »Law and the regulation of sexual violence in colonial India, c.1884.« 25th Annual Conference of the World History Association. Ghent 2016.


[Site] E u r o p e a n   L e g i s l a t i o n

[Site] General

[Info] Lorenz, Maren. »Der Wandel der juristischen Definition sexueller Gewalt unter dem Einfluß von Gerichtsmedizin und Anatomie seit der frühen Neuzeit.« Workshop of the Graduiertenkolleg »Sozialgeschichte von Gruppen, Schichten, Klassen und Eliten«, Universität Bielefeld. Bielefeld 2000.


[Site] Austrian Legislation

[Info] Bachitsch, Inge N. Die Entwicklung der Sittlichkeitsdelikte in Österreich bis 1918 unter Berücksichtigung der wichtigsten Strafgesetzentwürfe. Dissertation, Universität Wien, 1997.

[Info] Kirchknopf, Johann K. »Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder im österreichischen Strafrecht des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein Delikt und Strukturmerkmal zugleich.« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 28 (2017): 106-132.


[Site] English Legislation

[Info] Adams, Jad. Madder Music, Stronger Wine. The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent. London 2000.

[Info] Buydens, Norma L. Rape and "Consent to Force": Legal Doctrine and Social Context in Victorian Britain. M.LL. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2007.

[Info] D’Cruze, Shani. »Sexual violence since 1750.« The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present. Edited by Sarah Toulalan et al. New York 2013: 444-459.

[Info] Edwards, Susan S.M. Female Sexuality, the Law and Society: Changing Socio-Legal Conceptions of the Rape Victim in Britain since 1800. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Manchester, 1979.

[Info] Geis, Gilbert. »Rape-in-Marriage: Law and Law Reform in England, the United States, and Sweden.« Adelaide Law Review 6 (1978): 284-303.

[Info] Jackson, Louise A. Child Sexual Abuse and the Law. London, 1870-1914. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Surrey, 1997.

[Info] Jackson, Louise A. Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England. London 2000.

[Info] Lammasniemi, Laura. »Anti-White Slavery Legislation and its Legacies in England.« Anti-Trafficking Review No. 9 (2017): 64-76.

[Info] Ludwig, Manju. »Bodies in pain: Gewalt an sexuell „devianten“ männlichen und Transgender-Körpern im kolonialen Indien.« Peripherie 40 (2020): 125-146.

[Info] Sheley, Erin L. Criminality and the Common Law Imagination (1700-1900). Ph.D. Thesis, George Washington University, 2015.


[Site] French Legislation

[Info] Johnson, Sharon P. »Discursive and Rhetorical Shifts: Rape Narratives in Fiction, Law, and the Canards.« Annual Meeting of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Paris 2003.

[Info] Johnson, Sharon P. »Speaking for the Dead or Victimized Bodies of Rape: The Role of the Médecins légistes in Nineteenth-Century fin-de-siècle French Law, Medicine and Criminology.« Gender, Bodies and Technology. Roanoke 2010.


[Site] German Legislation

[Info] Brüggemann, Johannes A.J. Entwicklung und Wandel des Sexualstrafrechts in der Geschichte unseres StGB: Die Reform der Sexualdelikte einst und jetzt. Baden-Baden 2013.

[Info] Dane, Gesa. »Zeter und Mordio«: Vergewaltigung in Literatur und Recht. Göttingen 2005.

[Info] Kratzer, Isabel. »Die Geschichte des Vergewaltigungstatbestandes - Aufbruch contra Konservierung.« Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft 93 (2010): 83-103.

[Info] Kratzer, Isabel. »"Unwiderstehliche Gewalt", "ernsthafter Widerstand" und "minder schwerer Fall" als Schlüsselwörter der Geschichte des Vergewaltigungstatbestands.« Hat Strafrecht ein Geschlecht? Zur Deutung und Bedeutung der Kategorie Geschlecht in strafrechtlichen Diskursen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Edited by Gaby Temme et al. Bielefeld 2010: 119-137.

[Info] Müting, Christina. Sexuelle Nötigung; Vergewaltigung (§ 177 StGB). Reformdiskussion und Gesetzgebung seit 1870. Berlin 2010.


[Site] Irish Legislation


[Site] Italian Legislation

[Info] Noce, Tiziana. Il corpo e il reato: Diritto e violenza sessuale nell’Italia dell’Ottocento. Lecce 2009.

[Info] Novarese, Daniela. »Sul corpo delle donne: Stupro e debitum coniugale in Italia fra Otto e Novecento.« Violenza di genere, politica e istituzioni. Edited by M. Antonella Cocchiara. Milan 2014: 233-273.

[Info] Pignata, Marianna. »“Dal” Corpo e “sul” Corpo della donna: Il reato di stupro fra Ottocento e Novecento.« Questione Giustizia No. 2 (2016): 175-180.


[Site] Maltese Legislation

[Info] D’Anastas, Anthea-Marie. 'Rape' in the mid 19th century Malta: Historico-legal aspects in 1844-1864, before and after the promulgation of the Criminal Code 1854. LL.B. Thesis, L-Università ta' Malta, 2018.


[Site] Portuguese Legislation

[Info] Poiares, Nuno C.L., et al. »Igreja Católica e direito criminal: Uma abordagem sociológica ao Código Penal Português (1886).« Rever 19 (2019): 311-329.

[Info] Ventura, Isabel. Medusa no Palácio da Justiça: Imagens sobre mulheres, sexualidade e violência a partir dos discursos e práticas judiciais. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade do Minho, 2016.

[Info] Ventura, Isabel. Medusa no Palácio da Justiça ou Uma História da Violação Sexual. Lisbon 2018.


[Site] Russian Legislation

Laws: Military Law

[Info] Collins, Kristin. »The Making of Rape Culture: Sexual Violence in the Nineteenth-century Caucasus.« 29th Annual Conference of the World History Association. Salt Lake City 2020.


[Site] Scottish Legislation

[Info] Telling, Hannah R. The legal regulation of male violence in Scotland, 1850-1914. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2020.


[Site] Swedish Legislation

[Info] Edgren, Monika. »Makt sexualitet och våld: Lagen, rätten och det sociala livet genom ett våldtäkts­mål i Helsingborgs kämnärsrätt 1821.« Scandia 63 (1997): 227-257.


[Site] O c e a n i a n   L e g i s l a t i o n

[Site] Australian Legislation

[Info] Barber, Ross N. Rape and Other Sexual Offences in Queensland: An Historical and Behavioural Analysis. M.A. Thesis, University of Queensland, 1970.

[Info] Boxall, Hayley, et al. Historical review of sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia: 1788-2013. Canberra 2014.

[Info] Sturma, Michael. »Seduction and Punishment in Late 19th Century New South Wales.« Australian Journal of Law & Society 2 (1985): 76-82.

[Info] Swain, Shurlee. History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children. Sydney 2014.

[Info] Swain, Shurlee. History of child protection legislation. Sydney 2014.


[Site] Hawaiian History

[Info] Nelligan, Peter J. Social Change and Rape Law in Hawaii. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983.