Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape:

Types: Rape:
RAPE IN THE 17TH CENTURY

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] South African History


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

[Site] Chilean History

[Info] Plaza Salgado, Camila. Las flores, la pureza y el recogimiento: Im genes e imaginarios de la feminidad en Causas Criminales por Estupro y Rapto de la Capitan a General de Chile, 1638-1776. Revista Dos Puntas 9 (2017): 21-39.

[Info] Plaza Salgado, Camila. Mujeres recogidas y mujeres libres del mundo: Estudio sobre 149 estupros y raptos en la Capitan a General de Chile, 1638-1766. (Des) orden de g nero: pol ticas y mercados del cuerpo en Chile. Edited by Jorge Pavez Ojeda. Santiago de Chile 2017: 149-175.

[Info] Plaza Salgado, Camila. Raptadas y estupradores de la Capitan a General de Chile: Estudio de relaciones de g nero y experiencia colonial, 1638-1776. Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017.


[Site] U.S. History

[Info] Baker, Catherine. Rape in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts. Third Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Bryn Mawr 1976.

[Info] Crossman, Leslie. A History of Rape in American Society Prior to 1900. 100th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, D.C. 1992.

[Info] Dayton, Cornelia H. Women before the bar. Gender, law, and society in Connecticut, 1639-1789. Chapel Hill 1995.

[Info] Graves, Donna C. Rape history in the United States. Seventeenth century. Encyclopedia of rape. Edited by Merril D. Smith. Westport 2004: 177-179.

[Info] Hambleton, Else L. "Playing the rogue". Rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Sex without consent. Rape and sexual coercion in America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York 2001: 27-45.

[Info] Hambleton, Else L. Daughters of Eve. Pregnant brides and unwed mothers in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. New York 2004.

[Info] Hand-Stephenson, Corrie. Demons of Discord: Violence and the Socio-Political Growth of Colonial South Carolina and Georgia, 1690-1776. Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia State University, 2018.

[Info] Koehler, Lyle. A search for power. The "weaker sex" in seventeenth-century New England. Urbana 1980.

[Info] Landers, Jane. "In consideration of her enormous crime". Rape and infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine. The Devil s lane. Sex and race in the early South. Edited by Catherine Clinton et al. Oxford 1997: 205-217.

[Info] Marietta, Jack, et al. Rape, law, courts, and custom in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800. Sex without consent. Rape and sexual coercion in America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York 2001: 81-102.

[Info] Miracle, Amanda L. Rape and Infanticide in Maryland, 1634-1689: Gender and Class in the Courtroom Contestation of Patriarchy on the Edge of the English Atlantic. Ph.D. Thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2008.

[Info] Moazeni, Sarah. A Holy Kind of Violence': Rape, Consent, and Seventeenth-Century Puritan Religion. 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.

[Info] Nix, Ashley. Dramatized Rape in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England and Modern America. Aphra Behn Society Conference. Pittsburgh 2017.

[Info] Warren, Wendy A. "The cause of her grief". The rape of a slave in early New England. Journal of American history 93 (2007): 1031-1049.

[Info] Williams, David. The Gratification of That Corrupt and Lawless Passion: Character Types and Themes in Early New England Rape Narratives. A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. Edited by Frank Shuffelton. Oxford 1993: 194-221.

[Info] Williams, James H. Coerced sex and gendered violence in New Netherland. Sex without consent. Rape and sexual coercion in America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York 2001: 61-80.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Arabic History

Representations: Literary Texts: Seven Wise Masters


[Site] Chinese History


[Site] Iranian History

Types: Slave Rape


[Site] Turkish History

[Info] Baer, Marc. Death in the Hippodrome: Sexual Politics and Legal Culture in the Reign of Mehmet IV. Past & Present No. 210 (2011): 61-91.


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

[Site] General

[Info] Eder, Franz X. Eros, Wollust, S nde: Sexualit t in Europa von der Antike bis in die Fr he Neuzeit. Frankfurt/Main 2018.

[Info] Hryszko, Barbara. Iconography of Sexual Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses Published in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia 2020.

[Info] K mper, Hiram. The injured body in context: Outlines for a legal history of rape in pre-modern Europe (c. 1250 1750) in cultural perspective. New Perspectives on Gender and Legal History: European Traditions and the Challenge of Global History. Frankfurt/Main 2009.

[Info] Smith, Nigel S. Slavery, Rape, and Migration in European Transnational Drama, 1580 1641. 2021 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2021.


[Site] Dutch History

Representations: Literary Texts: Jan Vos; Types: Interracial Rape

[Info] Pipkin, Amanda It is only the tongue which brings so many maidens to fall : Dutch Golden Age Women s Perspectives on Rape and Marriage. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Montr al 2010.

[Info] Pipkin, Amanda Rape in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Women's Writings. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. San Juan 2013.

[Info] Smith, Nigel. Slavery, Rape, Migration: The View from the Amsterdam Stage, 1615. Shakespeare Studies 48 (2020): 80-.

[Info] Smith, Nigel. Violence, Emotion, and Political Theater: The Netherlands and European Drama. 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia 2020.

[Info] van der Heijden, Manon. Misdadige vrouwen: Criminaliteit en rechtspraak in Holland 1600-1800. Amsterdam 2014.

[Info] van der Heijden, Manon. Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland. Leiden 2016.


[Site] English History

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Religious Controversy, and the London Stage. NEH-EGSA Conference Tulsa 2011.

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. Rape in the Aftermath of Revolution: Images of Male Rape, 1689-96. Annual Congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Hamilton 2011.

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. Rape and the Cannibal Father: Sexual Violence and Political Philosophy in the Later Seventeenth Century. 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. San Antonio 2012.

[Info] Airey, Jennifer L. Rape is a four letter word : Sexual Violence as Religio-Political Propaganda in Historical Context. 34th Annual Conference of the National Women s Studies Association. Cincinnati 2013.

[Info] Dolan, Frances E. »Afterword.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 249-253.

[Info] Housman, Talya. Consent in Rape and Politics, 1642-1660. North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. Denver 2017.

[Info] Lambert, Tonya. Puritans' Perceptions of Sexual Aggression. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Antonio 2002.

[Info] Nix, Ashley. Dramatized Rape in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England and Modern America. Aphra Behn Society Conference. Pittsburgh 2017.

[Info] Solomon, Diana. By Force or by Farce: Rape in Restoration Comedies. 2015 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2015.

[Info] Varholy, Cristine M. »“But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London.« Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. Edited by Joseph P. Ward. New York 2008: 41-65.

[Info] Walker, Garthine. Rape, Acquittal and Culpability in Popular Crime Reports in England, c.1670-c.1750. Past & Present 220 (2013): 115-142.

[Info] Ward, Joseph P., ed. Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England. New York 2008.

[Info] Zuvich, Andrea. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain. Barnsley 2020.


[Site] French History

[Info] Burgess, Clare. »Reading Rape: Questions of Consent in Early Modern Lyon and Seville.« 'Do No Harm': Researching the Pasts, Present, and Futures of Sexual Violence. London 2023.

[Info] Delage, Gabriel. Enl vements, Rapts et S ductions en Angoumois: 17e et 18e si cles. Paris 1994.

[Info] Johnson, Sharon P. Interpreting Charles Perrault's 'Le Petit Chaperon rouge' ('Little Red Riding Hood') within 17- and 18th Century French Jurisprudence: Tolerating Rape and the Troubling Language of Love. Women and the Law: Legal Systems/Legal Fictions. Milwaukee 2001.


[Site] German History

Cases: Real Incidents: Sack of Magdeburg; Representations: Literary Texts: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer

[Info] Eder, Franz X. Kultur der Begierde: Eine Geschichte der Sexualit t. Munich 2002.

[Info] Eder, Franz X. Kultur der Begierde: Eine Geschichte der Sexualit t. Munich 2009.

[Info] Zander, Sylvina. Zwischen »ehrbar« und »liederlich«: Zur Geschichte der Frauen in Oldesloe vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Hamburg 2024.


[Site] Italian History

Cases: Real Victims: Artemisia Gentileschi; Representations: Art: Lorenzo Bernini, Artemisa Gentileschi; Representations: Literary Texts: Anna Banti (Artemisa); Types: Statutory Rape

[Info] McNamara, Celeste. Illicit Sex in Early Modern Venice. Annual Meeting of the Society for Italian Historical Studies. New York 2020.

[Info] Novarese, Daniela. La giustizia era altrettanto violenta degli stupratori : Donne e violenza sessuale in Italia, un lungo, tormentato percorso normativo. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 283-311.

[Info] Torremocha Hern ndez, Margarita. Presentaci n. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 9- .


[Site] Portuguse History

[Info] Braga, Isabel D. Punir a Viola o, perdoar os Violadores: Entre a justi a e a clem ncia no Portugal Moderno. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 165-187.

[Info] Torremocha Hern ndez, Margarita. Presentaci n. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 9- .


[Site] Russian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Spanish History

[Info] Blanco Carrasco, Jos P. Ad nde ir n los secretos? : Reflexiones en torno al estupro y mercado matrimonial en la Edad Moderna. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 133-163.

[Info] Burgess, Clare. »Reading Rape: Questions of Consent in Early Modern Lyon and Seville.« 'Do No Harm': Researching the Pasts, Present, and Futures of Sexual Violence. London 2023.

[Info] Corada Alonso, Alberto, et al. El estupro en el Antiguo R gimen: Una visi n cuantitativa desde el Archivo de la Real Chanciller a de Valladolid. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 39-89.

[Info] Jarque Mart nez, Encarna. Y sobre todo pido justicia : El delito de estupro en Arag n (siglos XVI y XVII). El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 189-212.

[Info] Mant con Movell n, Tom s A. Estupro, sexualidad e identidad en sociedades cat licas del Mediterr neo durante el Antiguo R gimen. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 253-281.

[Info] Mart nez Llorente, Felix. Una notaci n hist rica sobre el delito de estupro hasta la codificaci n penal. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 17-37.

[Info] Rodríguez Blanco, Cynthia. »Ser Madre en solitario: Un retrato de las familias incompletas en la Castilla Moderna.« Studia Historica: Historia Moderna 46 (2024): 61-85.

[Info] Torremocha Hern ndez, Margarita, et al., eds. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Valladolid 2018.

[Info] Torremocha Hern ndez, Margarita. Presentaci n. El estupro: Delito, mujer y sociedad en el Antiguo R gimen. Edited by Margarita Torremocha Hern ndez et al. Valladolid 2018: 9- .


[Site] Swedish History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Swiss History


[Site] Welsh History

[Info] Walker, Garthine. Everyman or a Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England, c.1600-1750. History Workshop Journal (August 2, 2013).

[Info] Walker, Garthine. Language, consent and culpability in rape and child sexual abuse in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Wales and England. 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.