Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Sexual Assault: Intimate Partner Violence:

Types: Sexual Assault:
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN THE 20^TH CENTURY

[Site] G e n e r a l

[Info] Davis, Andrew P., et al. »Safe at home? Examining the extension of criminal penalties for marital rape in cross-national context, 1979–2013.« Law & Society Review 58 (2024): 126-148.

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] South African History

[Info] Fransch, Chet. »The Reading of Simone de Beauvoir's Sexual Violence in Marriage within the Changing Climate of South Africa, c. 1948-2007.« Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Edited by Andrea Duranti et al. Newcastle upon Tyne 2017: 212-226.

[Info] Kaganas, Felicity, et al. »Law Reform and the Family: The New South African Rape-in-Marriage Legislation.« Journal of Law and Society 18 (1991): 287-302.

[Site] Swazi History

[Info] Keyse, Rhian. »"A man cannot in law be convicted of rape upon hisown wife": Consent, coercion, and colonial histories of sexual violence in 1930s Swaziland.« 'Do No Harm': Researching the Pasts, Present, and Futures of Sexual Violence. London 2023.

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

[Site] Brazilian History

[Info] de Oliveira, Marco A.G. Violência contra mulheres: A invisibilidade do estupro doméstico. Thesis, Universidade de Brasília, 2013.

[Site] Canadian History

[Info] Brown, Anne. Viol conjugal et violence maritale dans le roman féminin des années soixante. Ottawa 1992.

[Site] Jamaican History

[Info] Bourne, Paul A., et al. »Rape, Carnal Abuse and Marriage in Jamaica, 1970-2013: Is There Non-Consensual Sex in Marriage?« World Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 4 (2015): 199-230.

[Site] Nicaraguan History

[Info] Ellsberg, Mary, et al. »Long-term change in the prevalence of intimate partner violence: A 20-year follow-up study in León, Nicaragua, 1995-2016.« BMJ Global Health 5 (2020).

[Site] U.S. History

[Info] Adams, Madison M. "The Socially Induced Silence": Feminist Ideology and the Construction of Battered Women's Shelters in the 1970s. Senior Thesis, Kalamazoo College. 2019.

[Info] Barshis, Victoria R.G. »The Question of Marital Rape.« Women's Studies International Forum 6 (1983): 383-393.

[Info] Bennice, Jennifer A., et al. »Marital Rape: History, Research, and Practice.« Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 4 (2003): 228-246.

[Info] Bergen, Raquel K. »Still a Long Way to Go: Comparing Services to Survivors of Wife Rape in 1994 and 2004.« 57^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Toronto 2005.

[Info] Cuklanz, Lisa M. Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change. Philadelphia 1996.

[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] Ross, Joann M. Making Marital Rape Visible: A History of American Legal and Social Movements Criminalizing Rape in Marriage. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nebraska, 2015.

[Info] Ryan, Rebecca M. The Sex Right: A Legal History of the Marital Rape Exemption. Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 1994.

[Info] Spiers, John H. Breaking the Wedding Vows: Woman-Centered Critiques of Marriage, 1963-1982. M.A. Thesis, Clemson University, 2007.

[Info] Trinch, Shonna L. »Battered Women.« Encyclopedia of Rape. Edited by Merril D. Smith. Westport 2004: 21-22.

[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Indian History

[Info] Rukmani, Rukmani. »Rape and Its Representation in Bollywood Movies.« Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 2 (2014): 221-227.

[Info] Singh, Shivam, et al. »Domestic Violene and Its Theatrical Representation.« Ruminations 12 (2021): 57-65.

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

[Site] Austrian History

[Site] English History

[Info] Anderson, Melisa J. »Lawful Wife, Unlawful Sex: Examining the Effect of the Criminalization of Marital Rape in England and the Republic of Ireland.« Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 27 (1998): 139-166.

[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] Williamson, Adrian. »The Law and Politics of Marital Rape in England, 1945–1994.« Women's History Review (February 24, 2016).

[Site] Finnish History

[Info] Kotanen, Riikka. »From the protection of marriage to the defence of equality: The Finnish debate over the sexual autonomy of wives.« Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change. Edited by Marie B. Heinskou et al. London 2020: 83-100.

[Site] German History

[Info] Dackweiler, Regina-Maria. »Staatlichkeit, Gewalt und Geschlecht: Bekämpfung von (sexueller) Gewalt im sozialen Nahbereich als Staatsaufgabe.« Kritische Justiz 45 (2012): 70-88.

[Site] Irish History

[Info] Anderson, Melisa J. »Lawful Wife, Unlawful Sex: Examining the Effect of the Criminalization of Marital Rape in England and the Republic of Ireland.« Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 27 (1998): 139-166.

[Info] Diver, Cara. Marital violence in post-independence Ireland, 1922–96: ‘A living tomb for women’. Manchester 2019.

[Site] Polish History

[Info] Klich-Kluczewska, Barbara. »Sexual Violence and the Experts’ Discourse on Family in People’s Republic of Poland, 1960s-1980s.« 51^st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. San Francisco 2019.

[Site] Swedish History

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

[Site] Swiss History

[Info] Frey, Samuel. "Wir können nicht Polizisten in jedes Schlafzimmer schicken": Das Verbot der ehelichen Vergewaltigung in der Schweiz 1973-1992. Masterarbeit, Universität Basel, 2018.

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

[Site] Australian History

[Info] Featherstone, Lisa. »'That's what being a woman is for': Public Responses to Marital Rape Reforms.« 32^nd Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association. Wollongong 2013.

[Info] Featherstone, Lisa. »‘That’s What Being A Woman Is For’: Opposition To Marital Rape Law Reform In Late Twentieth-Century Australia.« Gender & History 29 (2017): 87-103.

[Info] Featherstone, Lisa, et al. »Marital Rape and the Marital Rapist: The 1976 South Australian Rape Law Reforms.« Feminist Legal Studies (August 28, 2018).

[Info] Larcombe, Wendy, et al. »Developing the Common Law and Rewriting the History of Rape in Marriage in Australia: PGA v The Queen.« Sydney Law Review 34 (2012): 785-807.

[Info] Lesses, Kos. »PGA v The Queen – Marital Rape in Australia: The Role of Repetition, Reputation and Fiction in the Common Law.« Melbourne University Law Review 37 (2014): 786-833.

[Info] Mackinnon, Alison, et al. »Sex, Resistance and Power: Sex Reform in South Australia, c. 1905.« Australian Historical Studies 23 (1988): 60-71.

[Info] Sletvold, Richard. »PGA v The Queen: Do laws just disappear?« Adelaide Law Review 33 (2012): 573-579.

[Info] Winn, Alexander G. Preserving the Patriarchal Narrative: Constructing Marital Rape and the Marital Rapist in the 1976 South Australian Rape in Marriage Reforms. B.A. Thesis, University of Newcastle, 2014.

[Site] New Zealand History

[Info] Tombs, Rachel D. »Feminists led, politicians followed: The Criminalisation of Marital Rape.« New Zealand Journal of History 58 (2024): 94-113.