Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Prosecution: Trials: Modern Trials:

Prosecution: Trials:
19TH-CENTURY TRIALS

[Site] A m e r i c a n   T r i a l s

[Site] Canadian Trials

[Info] Ramos, Sandy. "A Most Detestable Crime": Gender Identities and Sexual Violence in the District of Montreal, 1803-1843. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 12 (2001): 27-48.

[Info] Walker, Barrington. Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto 2010.


[Site] Chilean Trials

[Info] Valenzuela Cáceres, Marcelo. »La sodomía en Chile (1885-1903).« Anos 90 29 (2022): 1-20.


[Site] Mexican Trials

[Info] Elizondo, Lizeth. Malice of the Human Heart: Assault and Sexual Consent in the Northern Borderlands of Spanish Texas and Coahuila, 1700-1821. 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.

[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.


[Site] U.S. Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: John Deskins; Real Victims: Sidney Major Hanson

[Info] Arnold, Marybeth H. "The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman": Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790-1820. Passion and Power: Sexuality in History. Edited by Kathy Peiss et al. Philadelphia 1989: 35-56.

[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] Block, Sharon. Constructing Rape and Race in Early American Courts. Center for Law, History and Culture, University of Southern California. Los Angeles 2004.

[Info] Hamilton, Marybeth. "The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman": Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790-1820. New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780-1870. Edited by William Pencak et al. New York 1988.

[Info] Nemeth, Charles P. Character Evidence in Rape Trials in Nineteenth-Century New York: Chastity and the Admissibility of Specific Acts. Women's Rights Law Reporter 6 (1980): 214-225.

[Info] Wood, L. Maren. Dangerous Liaisons: Narratives of Sexual Danger in the Anglo-American North, 1770-1820. Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.


[Site] A s i a n   T r i a l s

[Site] Burmese Trials

Cases: Real Victims: Ma Gun


[Site] Chinese Trials

[Info] Sommer, Matthew H. The Gendered Body in the Qing Courtroom. Journal of the History of Sexuality 22 (2013): 281-311.


[Site] Indian Trials


[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.


[Site] E u r o p e a n   T r i a l s

[Site] Danish Trials

[Info] Zander, Sylvina. "Ich will dich wohl kriegen!" Das Delikt der Notzucht im fr hen 19. Jahrhundert. Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Neuzeit: Studien aus dem norddeutschen Raum. Edited by Alexandra Lutz. Neum nster 2005: 83-108.


[Site] Dutch Trials

[Info] van der Heijden, Manon, et al. Leniency versus Toughening?The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland. Journal of Social History 49 (2015): 149-167.


[Site] English Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: James Bamford, Charles Brown; Real Victims: Lillie Garrett, Mary Gradgrind

[Info] D Cruze, Shani. Crimes of Outrage: Sex, violence and Victorian working women. London 1998.

[Info] D Cruze, Shani. Crimes of Outrage: Sex, violence and Victorian working women. DeKalb 1998.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. Ingenuities of the female mind : Legal and public perceptions of sexual violence in Victorian England, 1850-1890. Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class. Edited by Shani D Cruze. Harlow 2000: 89-103.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault? The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870. Edited by Ian Inkster et al. Aldershot 2000: 237-248.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. Ingenuities of the female mind : Legal and public perceptions of sexual violence in Victorian England, 1850-1890. Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class. Edited by Shani D Cruze. London 2014: 89-103.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault? The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870. Edited by Ian Inkster et al. London 2017: 237-248.


[Site] German Trials

[Info] Maehle, Andreas-Holger. A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy aroung 1900. Notes and Records 71 (2017): 197-211.

[Info] Zander, Sylvina. "Ich will dich wohl kriegen!" Das Delikt der Notzucht im fr hen 19. Jahrhundert. Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Neuzeit: Studien aus dem norddeutschen Raum. Edited by Alexandra Lutz. Neum nster 2005: 83-108.


[Site] Italian Trials

[Info] Passarella, Claudia. »Between Leniency and Severity: Family Life and Criminal Behaviours at the Court of Assize of Venice, 1871-1898.« Histoire & Sociétés 24 (2020): 97-120.


[Site] Russian Trials

[Info] Antonova, Katherine P., et al. The Maiden and the Wolf: Law, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Imperial Russia. Slavic Review 77 (2018): 99-121.

[Info] Freeze, ChaeRan Y. »Epistemic Injustice in Jewish Rape and Seduction Court Cases in Tsarist Russia.« 51st Annual Conference of the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. San Diego 2019.


[Site] Scottish Trials

[Info] Barclay, Katie. »Malignant passions and carnal desires: Rape in long eighteenth-century Scotland.« Historical Research (July 11, 2024).

[Info] Barrie, David G., et al. Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Vol. 1. Farnham 2014.

[Info] Barrie, David G., et al. Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Vol. 1. London 2016.


[Site] Swedish Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Johannes Sandberg; Real Victims: Catharina Kobb


[Site] Swiss Trials

[Info] Cottier, Maurice. Sexuelle Gewalt in Bern um 1900: Praxis und Rechtsprechung. 4es Journ es suisses d'histoire. Lausanne 2016.

[Info] Cottier, Maurice. Fatale Gewalt: Ehre, Subjekt und Kriminalit t am bergang zur Moderne. Das Beispiel Bern 1868-1941. Konstanz 2017.


[Site] Welsh Trials

[Info] Watson, Katherine D. Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales. Continuity and Change 28 (2013): 245-272.


[Site] O c e a n i a n   T r i a l s

[Site] Australian Trials

[Info] Bavin-Mizzi, Jill. Understandings of Justice: Australian Rape and Carnal Knowledge Cases, 1876-1924. Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia. Edited by Diane Kirkby. Melbourne 1996: 19-32.


[Site] New Zealand Trials

[Info] Erai, Michelle. Criminal Sittings Rape in the Colony, New Zealand, 1862. Journal of Historical Sociology 24 (2011): 186-209.

[Info] Finn, Jeremy. "Not having the fear of God before her eyes...": Enforcement of the criminal law in the courts in the early Canterbury settlement 1853-1862. 23rd Annual Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference. Perth 2004.