Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Sexual Assault: Interracial Sexual Abuse:

Types: Sexual Assault:
INTERRACIAL SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE 19TH CENTURY

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] South African History

[Info] Martens, Jeremy C. "So Destructive of Domestic Security and Comfort": Settler Domesticity, Race and the Regulation of African Behaviour in the Colony of Natal, 1843-1893. Ph.D. Thesis, Queen's University, 2001.

[Info] Watson, R.L. Slave Emancipation and Racial Attitudes in Nineteenth-Century South Africa. Cambridge 2012.


[Site] A m e r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Brazilian History

Cases: Fictional Offenders: Senhor Tomé; Fictional Victims: Calu; Representations: Comics: Cumbe

[Info] Chalhoub, Sidney. »The Legacy of Slavery: Tales of Gender and Racial Violence in Machado de Assis.« Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis. Edited by Lamonte Aido et al. New York 2016: 55-69.


[Site] Canadian History

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

[Info] Woollacott, Angela. »Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters and Women in the Colonies in Colonial Warfare, 1830s-1910s.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.


[Site] Jamaican History

[Info] Rugemer, Edward B. »The Harrisons Go To Jamaica: Race and Sexual Violence in the Age of Abolition.« Journal of Family History 33 (2008): 13-20.


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Fictional Offenders: Gus, Braxton Rutledge; Fictional Victims: Lucy Dabney, Marion Lenois; Real Offenders: Armistead Carter Eliason, John Francis, George H. Hardy, Langford Harrison, Sam Hose, James Montandon, Robert Newsom, James Norcom; Real Victims: Celia, Mattie Cranford, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Luke, Peggy; Representations: Art: Faith Ringgold; Films: Sergeant Rutledge; Literary Texts: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”); Press Texts: Milwaukee Daily Journal, Milwaukee Sentinel

[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham 2012.

[Info] Allain, Jacqueline M. »Sexual Relations Between Elite White Women and Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South: A Socio-Historical Analysis.« Student Pulse 5 (2013).

[Info] Bailey, Jennifer. Voicing Oppositional Conformity: Sarah Winnemucca and the Politics of Rape, Colonialism, and "Citizenship": 1870--1890. M.A.Thesis, Portland State University, 2012.

[Info] Baker, Bruce E. »Lynch Law Reversed: The Lynching of Manse Waldrop.« Lynching and Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies. Atlanta 2002.

[Info] Baker, Bruce E. »Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s.« American Nineteenth Century History 6 (2005): 273-293.

[Info] Baker, Bruce E. »Lynch Law Reversed: The Rape of Lula Sherman, the Lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the Debate over Lynching in the 1880s.« Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence. Edited by William D. Carrigan. New York 2008: 47-68.

[Info] Baker, Bruce E. This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947. London 2008.

[Info] Baptist, Edward E. »"Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States.« American Historical Review 106 (2001): 1619-1650.

[Info] Baptist, Edward E. »"Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States.« The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas. Edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven 2005: 165-202.

[Info] Bardaglio, Peter W. »Rape and the Law in the Old South: "Calculated to excite indignation in every heart".« Journal of Southern History 60 (1994): 749-772.

[Info] Baughman, Laurence A. Southern Rape Complex: Hundred Year Psychosis. Atlanta 1966.

[Info] Brodnax, David. »The Mob Was in Complete Control: Racial Violence and the Law in Davenport, 1869-1905.« Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Baltimore 2006.

[Info] Campney, Brent M.S. This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927. Urbana 2015.

[Info] Campney, Brent M.S. »This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927.« Kansas City Public Library. Kansas City 2016.

[Info] Clarey, Chelsea. The Metonym of Edenic Masculinity: Depictions of Male-Male Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Property. M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, 2015.

[Info] Cornelius-Diallo, Alexandra. »They had no need to inquire: The Public Nature of Enslaved Women's Abuse and Resistance.« 92nd Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Charlotte 2007.

[Info] D’Emilio, John, et al. »Since Intimate Matters: Recent Developments in the History of Sexuality in the United States.« Journal of Women's History 25 (2013): 88-100.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. Navigating the Sad Epoch: Sexual Exploitation within Enslaved Communities in the Antebellum South. M.A. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. »Terms of Engagement: Considering Enslaved Women's perceptions of consent and agency in the midst of sexually coercive relationships.« 97th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. Pittsburgh 2012.

[Info] Eaves, Shannon C. »Enslaved Women, Sexual Exploitation Consciousness, and Its Impact on Marriage, Sexual Relations, and Motherhood.« Triangle Working Group in Feminism and History, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill 2014.

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

[Info] Epstein, Andrew B., et al. »Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873.« New Books in Native American Studies (2012).

[Info] Feimster, Crystal. »"Indecent and Obscene": White Officers, Black Women, and Rape in the "Contraband Quarters" of the American Civil War.« 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Mobile 2012.

[Info] Feinstein, Rachel. »Sexual Violence and Intersectionality: The Rape of Black Women by White Men.« 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. New York 2013.

[Info] Feinstein, Rachel. »Sexual Violence and the Rape of Black Women from Slavery to Present-day.« 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Atlanta 2013.

[Info] Feinstein, Rachel A. When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery. New York 2019.

[Info] Foster, Thomas A. »The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery.« Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (2011): 445-464.

[Info] Foster, Thomas A. »The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery.« Sexuality & Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas. Edited by Daina R. Berry et al. Athens 2018: 124-144.

[Info] Freedman, Estelle B. Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation. Cambridge 2013.

[Info] Gillmer, Jason A. Poor Whites, Benevolent Masters, and the Ideologies of Slavery: A Slave Accused of Rape in the Antebellum South. Berkeley 2006.

[Info] Gillmer, Jason A. »Poor Whites, Benevolent Masters, and the Ideologies of Slavery: The Local Trial of a Slave Accused of Rape.« North Carolina Law Review 85 (2007): 489-570.

[Info] Gunning, Sandra. Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912. New York 1996.

[Info] Hedgers, Kellie J. Broken Promises: Rape, Race, and the Union Army. M.A. Thesis, Central Washington University, 2015.

[Info] Hobson, Janell, et al. »Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Resistance in the United States.« The Routledge Companion to Black Women‘s Cultural Histories. Edited by Janell Hobson. New York 2021.

[Info] Holmes, Caren M. »The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women.« Black & Gold 2 (2016).

[Info] Hooker, Juliet, int. »Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans.« CSREA' New Book Talks. Providence 2023.

[Info] LaFleur, Greta. »Whither Rape in the History of Sexuality? Thinking Sex alongside Slavery’s Normative Violence.« Journal of the History of Sexuality 33 (2024): 153-187.

[Info] Lindsay, Brendan C. Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873. Lincoln 2012.

[Info] Livesey, Andrea. Sexual violence in the slaveholding regimes of Louisiana and Texas: Patterns of abuse in Black testimony. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015.

[Info] Livesey, Andrea. »Conceived in Violence: Enslaved Mothers and Children Born of Rape in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana.« Slavery & Abolition 38 (2017): 373-391.

[Info] Neale, Caherine S. Slaves, Freedpeople, And The University Of Virginia. Undergraduate Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Neely, Caroline E. "Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community. M.A. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000.

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

[Info] Olds, Madelin J. The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South. Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1989.

[Info] Olds, Madelin J. »The Rape Complex in the Postbellum South.« Black Women in America. Edited by Kim M. Vaz. Thousand Oaks 1995: 179-205.

[Info] Owens, Emily A. Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans. Chapel Hill 2023.

[Info] Rhoades, Sophia. The Evolution of Defining Rape in the United States. Honors Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2020.

[Info] Rosen, Hannah. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South. Chapel Hill 2009.

[Info] Smångs, Mattias. »Race, Gender, and the Rape-Lynching Nexus in the U.S. South, 1881-1930.« Social Problems (September 20, 2019).

[Info] Sommerville, Diana M. »The Politicization of Black-on-White Rape in the Reconstruction South.« 63rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Atlanta 1997.

[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.

[Info] Thurston, Robert W. Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective. Farnham 2011.

[Info] Waligora-Davis, Nicole A. »Criminal Discourse: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Study of Negro Crime.« Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Albuquerque 2008.

[Info] Wartberg, Lynn C. “They was Things Past the Tellin’”: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project. M.A. Thesis, University of New Orleans, 2012.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Burmese History

Cases: Real Victims: Ma Gun


[Site] Indian History

Cases: Real Offenders: Charles Webb; Real Victims: Maharani, Sukurmani

[Info] Shepherd, Verene A. Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean. Kingston 2005.


[Site] Singaporean History

[Info] Lowrie, Claire. »‘A Frivolous Prosecution’: Allegations of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Domestic Servants and the Defence of Colonial Patriarchy in Darwin and Singapore, 1880s–1930s.« Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim. Edited by Penelope Edmonds et al. Cham 2018: 249-272.


[Site] E u r o p e a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] English History

Cases: Real Offenders: Robert Ipson; Real Victims: Maharani

[Info] Newton, Melanie J. »The King v. Robert James, a slave, for rape. Inequality, gender, and British slave amelioration, 1823-1834.« Comparative studies in society and history 47 (2005): 583-610.

[Info] Shepherd, Verene A. Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean. Kingston 2005.

[Info] Woollacott, Angela. »Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters and Women in the Colonies in Colonial Warfare, 1830s-1910s.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.


[Site] French History

[Info] Rich, Jeremy. »Torture, Homosexuality, and Masculinities in French Central Africa: The Faucher-d'Alexis Affair of 1884.« Historical Reflections 36 (2010): 7-23.


[Site] Italian History

[Info] Baratieri, Daniela. »"More than a Tree, Less than a Woman". Sex and Empire: the Italian Case.« Australian Journal of Politics and History 60 (2014): 360-372.


[Site] O c e a n i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Australian History

Cases: Real Offenders: Alfred (The Aboriginal), Daniel Mow-Watty, Peter (Mun-gett); Real Victims: Jane Dowd, Isabella Garland, Hannah Russell

[Info] Connors, Libby. »Uncovering the Shameful: Sexual Violence on an Australian Colonial Frontier.« Legacies of Violence: Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia. Edited by Robert Mason. New York 2017: 33-52.

[Info] Genever, Geoffrey. »‘Worse than Murder’? Colonial Queensland's Response to the Rape of European Women by Aboriginal Men.« Queensland Review 19 (2012): 234-246.

[Info] Genever, Terence G. The Road to Lotus Glen: Aborigines, the Law, Justice and Imprisonment in Colonial Queensland. Ph.D. Thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1996.

[Info] Harris, Carmel. »The "Terror of the Law" as Applied to Black Rapists in Colonial Queensland.« Hecate 8 (1982): 22-48.

[Info] Inglis, Amirah. »Re-Reading the White Woman's Protection Ordinance« European Impact and Pacific Influence: British and German Colonial Policy in the Pacific Islands and the Indigenous Response. Edited by Hermann J. Hiery et al. London 1997: 324-337.

[Info] Lowrie, Claire. »‘A Frivolous Prosecution’: Allegations of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Domestic Servants and the Defence of Colonial Patriarchy in Darwin and Singapore, 1880s–1930s.« Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim. Edited by Penelope Edmonds et al. Cham 2018: 249-272.

[Info] Philips, David. »Sex, race, violence and the criminal law in colonial Victoria. Anatomy of rape case in 1888.« Labour history No. 52 (1987): 30-49.

[Info] Philips, David. »Anatomy of a rape case, 1888.« A nation of rogues? Crime, law, and punishment in colonial Australia. Edited by David Philips et al. Carlton 1994: 97-122.

[Info] Woollacott, Angela. »Imperial Conquest, Violent Encounters and Women in the Colonies in Colonial Warfare, 1830s-1910s.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.

[Info] Woollacott, Angela. »Ambiguity and Necessity: Settlers and Aborigines in Intimate Tension in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia.« Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim. Edited by Penelope Edmonds et al. Cham 2018: 45-65.


[Site] New Zealand History

[Info] Erai, Michelle F. In the Shadow of Manaia: Colonial Narratives of Violence against M?ori Women, 1820-1870. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2007.

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

[Info] Wanhalla, Angela. »Interracial Sexual Violence in 1860s New Zealand.« New Zealand Journal of History 45 (2011): 71-84.