Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape: Prison Rape:

Types: Rape:
PRISON RAPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Algerian History

Cases: Real Victims: Djamila Boupacha


[Site] Senegalese History

[Info] Konate, Dior. »Sénégal. L’emprisonnement des femmes, de l’époque coloniale à nos jours.« Revue français d’histoire d’outre-mer 86 (1999): 79-98.


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

[Site] Chilean History

Cases: Real Victims: Oriana; Representations: Literary Texts: Luz Arce, Ariel Dorfman


[Site] Peruvian History

[Info] Leiby, Michele. »Sexual violence against Political Prisoners: An Examination of Empirical Evidence in El Salvador and Peru.« Sexual Crimes: Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives. Edited by Alissa Ackermann et al. New York 2015.


[Site] Slavadorean History

[Info] Leiby, Michele. »Sexual violence against Political Prisoners: An Examination of Empirical Evidence in El Salvador and Peru.« Sexual Crimes: Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives. Edited by Alissa Ackermann et al. New York 2015.


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Fictional Victims: Derek Vinyard; Real Victims: Derek Vinyard; Representations: Films: American History X

[Info] Burton-Rose, Daniel. »The Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism, 1977-78.« Prison Masculinities. Edited by Don Sabo et al. Philadelphia 2001: 224-229.

[Info] Chase, Rob. »Collective Trauma: Prison Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Creation of a Prison-Made Civil Rights Movement.« 75th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Louisville 2009.

[Info] Eigenberg, Helen M. »Correctional officers and their perceptions of homosexuality, rape, and prostitution in male prisoners.« Prison journal 80 (2000): 415-433.

[Info] Eigenberg, Helen M., et al. »If You Drop the Soap in the Shower You Are On Your Own: Images of Male Rape in Selected Prison Movies.« Sexuality & Culture 7 (2003): 56-89.

[Info] Fergus, Devin. Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980. Athens 2009.

[Info] Fleisher, Mark S., et al. The culture of prison sexual violence. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Fleisher, Mark S., et al. The Myth of Prison Rape: Sexual Culture in American Prisons. Lanham 2009.

[Info] Hensley, Christopher, et al. »Introduction. The history of prison sex research.« Prison journal 80 (2000): 360-367.

[Info] Hillius, William J. Assuming Rape: The Reproduction of Fear in American Military Female POWs. M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 2012.

[Info] Jach, Theresa. »Chasing a Greased Pig: Black Female Convicts' Struggle against Sexual Exploitation in the Texas Prison.« 108th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. St. Louis 2015.

[Info] Jacquet, Catherine O. Responding to Rape: Contesting the Meanings of Sexual Violence in the United States, 1950-1980. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012.

[Info] Jacquet, Catherine. »Providing “much needed information”: The First Studies on the Sexual Abuse of Incarcerated Women.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.

[Info] Jenko, Francy L. The Social Injustice of Prison Rape: A Historical Analysis. Master's Thesis, California State University at Long Beach, 2010.

[Info] Johnson Jr., Michael. »Institutionalized Indifference: Rape with a View.« Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 23 (2014): 11-30.

[Info] Kunzel, Regina G. »Situating sex. Prison sexual culture in the mid-twentieth-century United States.« GLQ 8 (2002): 253-270.

[Info] Kunzel, Regina. »Sexual Jungle: Race and Prison Sexual Violence, 1965-1980.« 99th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Kunzel, Regina G. Criminal intimacy. Prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality. Chicago 2008.

[Info] LeFlouria, Talitha. »“Under the Sting of the Lash”: Gendered Violence, Terror, and Resistance in the South’s Convict Camps, 1865-1920.« 79th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. St. Louis 2013.

[Info] LeFlouria, Talitha L. »“Under the Sting of the Lash”: Gendered Violence, Terror, and Resistance in the South’s Convict Camps.« The Journal of African American History 100 (2015): 366-384.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »You Just Can’t Imagine What They Did To Her: Black Girl Activists and Jailhouse Sexualized Violence.« Staff-Student Research Seminar, King's College London. London 2009.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »The Unmentionable Ugliness of the Jailhouse: Black Girl Protesters, Sexualized Violence, and the Leesburg Stockade Imprisonment of 1963.« 44th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association. Atlanta 2010.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »Dorothy Height and Women’s Civil Rights Mobilization against Jailhouse Abuses.« 41st Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Atlanta 2010.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. "The Unmentionable Ugliness of the Jailhouse": Sexualized Violence, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Leesburg Stockade Imprisonment of 1963. Ph.D. Thesis, King's College London, 2011.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »"I Didn't Think Rape": Gendered Expectations and Memories of the Leesburg Stockade Jail-in, 1963.« American History Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. London 2012.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »"Mistreated and Molested": Jailhouse Violence and the Civil Rights Movement.« Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. London 2013.

[Info] Legal-Miller, Althea. »Sexualized Violence and the American Black Freedom Movement.« Nzingha Lecture Series, London Metropolitan University. London 2013.

[Info] Mardorossian, Carine M. Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered. New Brunswick 2014.

[Info] McNeil, Genna R. »"Joanne Is You and Joanne Is Me": A Consideration of African-American Women and the "Free Joan Little" Movement, 1974-75.« Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. Edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas et al. New York 2001: 259-279.

[Info] O’Donnell, Ian. »Prison Rape in Context.« British Journal of Criminology 44 (2004): 241-255.

[Info] Pinar, William F. The gender of racial politics and violence in America. Lynching, prison rape, and the crisis of masculinity. New York 2001.

[Info] Potter, Roberto H., et al. »Prisons, sex in.« The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, and sexuality through history. Vol. 6. Edited by James T. Sears. Westport 2008: 203-206.

[Info] Singer, Michael. Prison Rape: An American Institution? Santa Barbara 2013.

[Info] Stemple, Lara. »HBO’s OZ and the fight against prisoner rape. Chronicles from the front line.« Third wave feminism and television. Jane puts it in a box. Edited by Merri L. Johnson. London 2007: 166-188.

[Info] Tewksbury, Richard, et al. »Research on sex in prison during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The history of prison sex research.« Prison journal 80 (2000): 368-378.


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

[Site] English History

[Info] O’Donnell, Ian. »Prison Rape in Context.« British Journal of Criminology 44 (2004): 241-255.


[Site] German History

[Info] Landwehrkamp, Laura J. Male Rape in Auschwitz: An Exploration of the Dynamics of Kapo-Piepel Sexual Violence in KL Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Master Thesis, Uppsala Universitet, 2019.