Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Types: Rape:
RAPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

[Site] G e n e r a l

[Info] Andersson, Ulrika, et al., eds. Rape Narratives in Motion. Cham 2019.

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence. London 2022.

[Info] Bourke, Joanna, et al. »Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence.« New Books in Women's History. New Books Network 2022.

[Info] Diver, Robin. »Fleeing from Rape: A Children's Tale? Adaptations of Daphne and Apollo.« Echoes: A Symposium on Classic-Modern Relations. Birmingham 2018.

[Info] Killean, Rachel, et al. »Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics.« LawPod (May 29, 2019).

[Info] Koch, Angela. »Performing Sexual Violence: Zum Erscheinen der Bedeutung von sexueller Gewalt im Film.« Performativität und Performance: Geschlecht in Musik, Theater und MedienKunst. Edited by Martina Oster et al. Hamburg 2008: 76-87.

[Info] Koch, Angela. »Gefährdete Ordnung im Rape-Revenge-Film.« Der Einsatz des Lebens: Lebenswissen, Medialisierung, Geschlecht. Edited by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky et al. Berlin 2009: 175-189.

[Info] Parker, Louisa. »Autobiographical Content and the Legacy of Artemisia, or Why Should We Care If Someone Was Raped?« Comics Forum 2014. Leeds 2014.

[Info] Roptin, Jacky. »Des viols de guerre à la violence sexuelle comme terreur.« Mémoires No. 75 (2019): 5-7.

[Info] Serisier, Tanya. Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics. Cham 2018.

[Info] Tashjian, Michaela. »Rape Fantasy and the Feminist: A History of Critical Thought.« SOARS Virtual Conference. Raleigh 2020.


[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] General

Representations: Literary Texts: Modibo Sounkalo Keita; Types: Same-Sex Rape


[Site] Algerian History

[Info] Ghabrial, Sarah. »The Limits of 'Legal Pluralism': Consent, Rape, and Evidence in Colonial Algeria.« 45th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. Longueuil 2019.

[Info] Shepard, Todd. Sex, France & Arab Men, 1962-1979. Chicago 2018.


[Site] Beninese History


[Site] Botswana History


[Site] Burundian History


[Site] Cameroonian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Francis Bebey, Calixthe Beyala; Types: Child Sexual Abuse, Incestual Rape


[Site] Congolese History

Types: Wartime Rape

[Info] Lauro, Amandine, et al. »Sexual Violence, Female Consent and Colonial Justice in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960).« Historicising Rape. Cardiff 2015.

[Info] Lauro, Amandine. »Sexual Violence, Female Consent and Colonial Justice in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960).« 11th European Social Scinece History Conference. Valencia 2016.

[Info] Lauro, Amandine, et al. »Historicizing Sexual Violence in Colonial Congo, between Legal and Social History: Rape, Consent and Colonial Courts in the Belgian Congo (1880-1960).« 23rd Annual Forum of the Association of Young Legal Historians. Naples 2017.


[Site] Equatoguinean History

Representations: Films: Las palmeras en la nieve


[Site] Gabonese History

Representations: Literary Texts: Justine Mintsa


[Site] Ghanaian History


[Site] Ivorian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Ahmadou Kourouma


[Site] Kenyan History


[Site] Liberian History


[Site] Mozambican History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Namibian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Ludwig Fels (Die Hottentottenwerft); Types: Genocidal Rape, Interracial Rape, Wartime Rape


[Site] Nigerian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Ken Saro-Wiwa; Types: Slave Rape, Wartime Rape


[Site] Rwandan History

Representations: Literary Texts: Monique Ilboudo, Véronique Tadjo (L’ombre d’Imana: voyages jusqu’au bout du Rwanda); Types: Genocidal Rape, Statutory Rape, Wartime Rape


[Site] Senegalese History

Types: Prison Rape


[Site] Sierra Leonian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Somalian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] South African History

[Info] Bridger, Emily. »Apartheid's 'rape crisis'; Understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s-1990s.« Women's History Review (June 13, 2023).

[Info] Jamel, Joanna. »Do the Print Media Provide a Gendre-Biased Representation of Male Rape Victims?« Internet Journal of Criminology (January 2014).

[Info] Thornberry, Elizabeth. Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Cambridge 2019.


[Site] Sudanese History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Tanzanian History


[Site] Togolese History


[Site] Ugandan History

Representations: Literary Texts: Goretti Kyomuhendo; Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Zambian History

[Info] Mahdi, A.A. Rape and attempted rape in Zambia: A study of statistical trends in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia, 1970-1989. Lusaka 1989-1992.


[Site] Zimbabwean History

[Info] Benson, Koni, et al. »Ukubhinya: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-1956.« Zambezia 30 (2003): 108-133.

[Info] Benson, Koni, et al. »Ukubhinya: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-1956.« Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (2005): 587-610.

[Info] Kennedy, Dane. Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1890-1939. Durham 1987.

[Info] McCulloch, Jock. Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935. Bloomington 2000.


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

[Site] Argentine History


[Site] Brazilian History

[Info] Araújo, Valmir F.de. Memória da Imigração Síria e Libanesa nos Vales dos Rios Acre e Purus - 1900-1975. Tese de Doutorado, Universidade de São Paulo, 2015

[Info] Fagundes, Marluce D. Honra, moral e violência nos “anos dourados”: Discursos jurídicos em crimes sexuais – Porto Alegre (1948-1964). Dissertação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2018.

[Info] Iotti, Luiza H., et al. »Justiça e memória: Crimes contra as mulheres em Caxias do Sul na década de 30 através das fontes judiciais.« Criminalidade, Violência e Justiça: reflexões e novas possibilidades. São Leopoldo 2017: 224-234.

[Info] Iotti, Luiza H., et al. »A moça é séria e o noivo lhe fez mal: O defloramento através dos processos criminais.« Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais 10 (2018): 287-303.

[Info] Ribas Filho, Marcelo. »A palavra das testemunhas nos casos de defloramento, sedução e estupro (Irati-PR, 1930-1950).« Temporalidades 13 (2021): 430-453.

[Info] Satori, Guilherme R. A construção da verdade nos crimes de defloramento (1920-1940): Práticas e representações do discurso jurídico na Comarca de Bauru (SP). Dissertação, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 2011.

[Info] Textor, Bárbara G. »Gênero e honra em processos-crime de Santa Maria/RS (1910/1946).« Criminalidade, Violência e Justiça: reflexões e novas possibilidades. Edited by Caroline von Mühlen et al. São Leopoldo 2017: 212-223.


[Site] Canadian History

[Info] Devon, Sandra A. Rape and the Judicial System: A Study of Social Control, Manitoba, 1965 - 1980. M.A. Thesis, University of Manitoba, 1984.

[Info] Erickson, Lesley A. »"Hired Hands" and Deviant Women: Sex Crime Prosecutions in the Canadian West, 1889-1940.« 80th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. Quebec City 2002.

[Info] Pierce, Alexandra. »“Sexual Savages”: Christian Stereotypes and Violence Against North America’s Native Women.« Religion and Men's Violence Against Women. Edited by Andy J. Johnson. New York 2015: 63-97.

[Info] Quinlan, Andrea. The Technoscientific Witness of Rape: Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science. Toronto 2017.


[Site] Chilean History

[Info] Palafox Menegazzi, Alejandra. »Higiene y degeneración en el tratamiento médico-legal de la violencia sexual en Chile.« Actas - Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana 23 (2020).

[Info] Palafox Menegazzi, Alejandra. »La Medicina Legal y el delito de violación en Chile (1875-1922).« Dynamis 40 (2020): 125-146.


[Site] Colombian History


[Site] Costa Rican History


[Site] Cuban History

Representations: Literary Texts: Ana Luz García Calzada; Types: Attempted Rape


[Site] Dominican History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Ecuadorian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco


[Site] Guadeloupean History

Representations: Literary Texts: Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Myriam Warner-Vieyra


[Site] Guatemalan History


[Site] Haitian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Edwidge Danticat; Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Jamaican History

Types: Marital Rape


[Site] Mexican History

Cases: Real Offenders: Luis Amador, Zenaido Llanos; Real Victims: Audrey Peteet, Clyde Peteet; Representations: Comics: Relatos del Jorobado; Literary Texts: Carlos Fuentes; Types: Child Sexual Abuse, Incestual Rape, Statutory Rape, Wartime Rape

[Info] Cabrera García, Elisa. Militancia feminista, fenómenos culturales y violencia de género en México: Una historia visual (1970-2002). Tesis doctoral, Universidad de Granada, 2023.

[Info] Flores Méndez, Yessenia. »Violencia contra la mujer, divorcio y relaciones de género en Tamaulipas a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX: Una mirada histórica.« Contribución al análisis de la violencia familiar en Tamaulipas.Edited by Victor Daniel Jurado Flores. Ciudad Victoria 2020: 17-55.


[Site] Nicaraguan History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Peruvian History


[Site] Salvadorean History


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Fictional Offenders: Thomas Covenant, Double J, Joey, Angus Thermopyle, Trigger, Charlie Venner; Fictional Victims: Annette, Franny Berry, Temple Drake, Morn Hyland, Ellen James, Lena, Melony Rose, Rose Rose, Amy Sumner, Susie the Bear, Vera, Rosemary Woodhouse; Real Offenders: Kirk Douglas, Alexander Pantages, William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson; Real Victims: Myriam Gurba, Lisa Gier King, Audrey Peteet, Clyde Peteet, Eunice Pringle, Desiree Washington; Natalie Wood, Representations: Comics: White Whore Funnies Films: Anna Christie (1923), Anna Christie (1930), Body and Soul, I Spit on Your Grave, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle, L.A. Law, Law & Order, Ms. 45, Peyton Place, Reasonable Doubts, Ressurrection (1931), Saturday Night Fever, The Story of Temple Drake, Strange Days, Straw Dogs (1971), 21 Jump Street, Within Our Gates; Literary Texts: Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), Laurie Anderson (Speak), Charles Bukowski (Rape! Rape!), Amy Clampitt ("Medusa"), Stephen R. Donaldson, T.S. Eliot, Frank Herbert, Robin Hobb, John Irving, Maxine Kumin ("Pantoum, with Swan"), Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby), H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire), Cormac McCarthy, Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Daphne"), Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ann Petry (The Street), Sylvia Plath ("On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad"), John Sanford (The People from Heaven), May Sarton ("The Muse as Medusa"), Anne Sexton ("Where I live in this Honorable House of the Laurel Tree"), Alice Walker, Eudory Welty, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright; Press: The Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Examiner, The New York Times, Playboy; Song Texts: Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Liz Phair; Television: The Oprah Winfrey Show; Video Games: Phantasmagoria; Society: Movements: Anti-Rape Movement; Types: Anal Rape, Attempted Rape, Bestial Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, Date Rape, Gang Rape, Incestual Rape, Instrumental Rape, Interracial Rape, Marital Rape, Prison Rape, Rape by Proxy, Same-Sex Rape, Serial Rape, Statutory Rape, Wartime Rape

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Sexual violation and trauma in historical perspective.« Arbor No. 743 (2010): 407-416.

[Info] Brookfield, Molly. »The Stranger in the Street: Street Harassment in Feminist Anti-Rape Activism, 1968-1980.« Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. San Francisco 2019.

[Info] Chesnais, Jean-Claude. Histoire de la violence en Occident de 1800 à nos jours. Paris 1981.

[Info] Chesnais, Jean-Claude. Storia della violenza in Occidente dal 1800 a oggi . Milan 1982.

[Info] Cuklanz, Lisa M. »The Masculine Ideal: Rape on Prime-Time Television, 1976-1978.« Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15 (1998): 423-448.

[Info] Devlin, Donna. »Testifying to the “Positive Fact” of “Rape”: Corroboration Requirements in Nebraska and Kansas through the Late 20th Century.« 136th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Philadelphia 2023.

[Info] Dodd, Jenifer. “Compulsive Rapism”: Psychiatric Approaches to Sexual Violence in the 1980s. Ph.D. Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2016.

[Info] Feimster, Crystal. »Raped and Lynched: Black Female Victims of Mob Violence in the New South, 1880-1930.« 65th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Fort Worth 1999.

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Victim: Rescripting Rape in Contemporary American Fiction since 1970. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Clemson 2020.

[Info] Freedman, Estelle. »The Politics of Rape in American History: Gender, Race, and Social Change.« 99th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Freyberg, Anna. »A Woman's Place in the Revolution: Gender and Sexual Politics within the Black Panther Party.« MURAJ 4(6) (2021).

[Info] Goldbort, Sarah. »"Teach as if you aren't afraid of getting fired": A Queer Survivor's Use of Restorative Justice Circles to Embrace Vulnerability in the Classroom.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 287-295.

[Info] Green, Laurie B. »"We Must Act on This": Police Rape, Gender, and the Politics of Racial Justice in Postwar Memphis.« 96th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Memphis 2003.

[Info] Gustafsson-Wood, Isaac. Male rape in film comedy: Representations in contemporary Hollywood. Doctoral Thesis, University of Southampton, 2019.

[Info] Hildebrand, Sarah, chair. »Reading and Theorizing Rape Culture (Part 2).« 51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston 2020.

[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] Jacquet, Catherine. »Rape, Politics, and the Politics of Rape.« 110th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. New Orleans 2017.

[Info] Jacquet, Catherine. »"Do We Really Believe the Police Will Protect Us?": Anti-State Analysis in the 1970s Anti-Rape Movement.« Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. San Francisco 2019.

[Info] Jacquet, Catherine O. The Injustices of Rape: How Activists Responded to Sexual Violence, 1950–1980. Chapel Hill 2019.

[Info] Jamel, Joanna. »Do the Print Media Provide a Gendre-Biased Representation of Male Rape Victims?« Internet Journal of Criminology (January 2014).

[Info] Keire, Mara. »Women and Sexual Assault in the United States, 1900–1940.« Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Edited by Jon Butler. Oxford 2019.

[Info] Keire, Mara. »She said, he said, he said: Narrative destruction in a New YorkCity rape case, 1916-1917.« 'Do No Harm': Researching the Pasts, Present, and Futures of Sexual Violence. London 2023.

[Info] Kotch, Seth. Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina. Chapel Hill 2019.

[Info] Kramm, Robert. Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Oakland 2017.

[Info] Kramm-Masaoka, Robert. Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zürich, 2015.

[Info] Loney-Howes, Rachel. Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media. Bingley 2020.

[Info] McConnell, Kelsey. »Trauma isn’t a Prop: Sexual Abuse in Comics.« ComicsVerse (July 30, 2017).

[Info] Morse, Jaimie. »Legal mobilization in medicine: Nurses, rape kits, and the emergence of forensic nursing in the United States since the 1970s.« Social Science & Medicine 222 (2019): 323-334.

[Info] O’Brien, Robert M., et al. »An Empirical Comparison of the Validity of UCR and NCS Crime Rates.« The Sociological Quarterly 21 (1980): 391-401.

[Info] O’Brien, Robert M. »UCR violent crime rates, 1958-2000: Recorded and offender-generated trends.« Social Science Research 32 (2003): 499-518.

[Info] Odem, Mary E. »Cultural Representations and Social Contexts of Rape in the Early Twentieth Century.« Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History. Edited by Michael A. Bellesiles. New York 1999: 353-370.

[Info] Orcutt, James D., et al. »Sex-Role Attitude Change and Reporting of Rape Victimization, 1973-1985.« Sociological Quarterly 29 (1988): 589-604.

[Info] Orcutt, James D., et al. »Sex-Role Attitude Change and Reporting of Rape Victimization, 1973-1985.« Criminal Behavior: Text and Readings in Criminology . Second Edition. Edited by Delos H. Kelly. New York 1990: 79-93.

[Info] Pierce, Alexandra. »“Sexual Savages”: Christian Stereotypes and Violence Against North America’s Native Women.« Religion and Men's Violence Against Women. Edited by Andy J. Johnson. New York 2015: 63-97.

[Info] Pinkowitz, Jacqueline. »'Rape and Race': Exposing/Exploiting Slavery's Monstrous Intimacies in Late 1960s and Early 1970s Slavery Exploitation Films.« 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto 2018.

[Info] Pugh, Brandie. Reporting Rape by Victims and Third Parties: Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Survey (1992-2012). M.A. Thesis, University of Delaware, 2014.

[Info] Pugh, Brandie. »Reporting Rape by Victims and Third Parties: Evidence From National Crime Victimization Survey (1992-2012).« Annual Graduate Student Forum at the University of Delaware. Newark 2014.

[Info] Pugh, Brandie. »Reporting rape by victims and third parties: Evidence from National Crime Victimization Survey (1992-2012).« 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco 2014.

[Info] Pugh, Brandie. »Reporting Rape by Victims and Third Parties: Evidence From National Crime Victimization Survey (1992-2012).« Powerful Partnerships: 20 Years of the Violence Against Women Act and the Path Ahead. Newark 2014.

[Info] Quinlan, Andrea. »Visions of Public Safety, Justice, and Healing: The Making of the Rape Kit Backlog in the United States.« Social & Legal Studies (February 21, 2019).

[Info] Reid, Lydia J.E. Rape, Law, and Society in the Progressive Era. M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 1992.

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

[Info] Robertson, Stephen. »"Doing Away with Consent": Rape, the Age of Consent, and Female Sexual Subjectivity in New York City, 1896-1916.« Third Social History Conference. Cincinnati 1993.

[Info] Robertson, Stephen. »Shifting the Scene of the Crime: From the History of Rape to the History of Sexual Violence.« 99th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Sheehan, Rebecca J. »‘If we had more like her we would no longer be the unheard majority’: Germaine Greer’s reception in the United States.« Australian Feminist Studies 31 (2016): 62-77.

[Info] Shelby, Renee. »Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo® Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism.« Theoretical Criminology (December 24, 2018).

[Info] Sood, Asmita, et al. »Cultural History of Sexual Violence.« Talking Research (January 8, 2020).

[Info] Trujillo, Sarai. »Rape and the Image of Women: An Ethnographic Survey.« The Image of Violence in Literature, Media, and Society. Colorado Springs 2007.

[Info] Trujillo, Sarai M. »Rape and the Image of Women: An Ethnographic Survey.« The Image of Violence in Literature, Media, and Society II. Edited by Will Wright et al. Pueblo 2007: 178-181.

[Info] Waligora-Davis, Nicole A. »Black Numbers: Race, Gender, and Personal Injury.« Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Honolulu 2019.

[Info] Walsh, Brian P. The Rape of Tokyo: Legends of Mass Sexual Violence and Exploitation during the Occupation of Japan. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2016.

[Info] Walsh, Brian. »Sexual Violence During the Occupation of Japan.« The Journal of Military History 82 (2018): 1199-1230.

[Info] Weiner, Neil A., et al. »Violence Arrests in the City: The Philadephia Story, 1857-1980.« Violence in America. Vol. 1. Edited by Ted R. Gurr. London 1989: 102-121.

[Info] Whaley, Rachel B. »Reconciling the Apparent Contradictory Effects of Gender Equality on Rape.« Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociologial Association. Portland 1999.

[Info] Whaley, Rachel B. The Structural Covariates of Rape, 1970-1990: A Consideration of Social Disorganization, Inequality, and Feminist Theories. Ph.D. Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 1999.

[Info] Whaley, Rachel B. »Changes in Gender Equality and the Consequences for Men's Violence: Rape and Homicide 1980-2000.« 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Atlanta 2007.

[Info] Whittier, Nancy. Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence. Oxford 2018.

[Info] Wiesner, Caitlin R. »Deserving Victims: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Advocacy in 1980s Chicago.« Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. San Francisco 2019.

[Info] Yang, Zhiguo. United States Marines in Qingdao: Military-Civilian Interaction, Nationalism, and China's Civil War 1945-1949. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1998.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Afghan History

Types: Wartime Rape

[Info] Wimpelmann, Torunn. Adultery, rape, and escaping the house: The protection and policing of female sexuality in Afghanistan. Bergen 2017.


[Site] Arabic History

Types: Same-Sex Rape


[Site] Armenian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Azerbaijani History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Bangladeshi History

[Info] Gerlach, Christian. »Crowd Violence in East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971–1972.« Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader. Edited by Frank Jacob. Berlin 2019: 15-39.


[Site] Burmese History

[Info] Saha, Jonathan. »The male state: Colonialism, corruption and rape investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta c.1900.« Indian Economic and Social History Review 47 (2010): 343-376.

[Info] Saha, Jonathan. Law, Disorder and the Colonial State: Corruption in Burma c.1900. Basingstoke 2013.


[Site] Cambodian History


[Site] Chinese History

[Info] Chen, Sirong. Legalizing Sex Industries or Not? A Comparison of the Growth Rate of Sexual Crimes and STDS among China Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. M.Sc. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2019.

[Info] Tsang, Carol. »Whose Body Is It? The Politics of Abortion in Late Colonial Hong Kong.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Seattle 2024.

[Info] Yang, Zhiguo. United States Marines in Qingdao: Military-Civilian Interaction, Nationalism, and China's Civil War 1945-1949. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland, 1998.

[Info] Zhang, Lening, et al. »The Characteristics of Chinese Women's Victimization in Sex Offenses.« International Criminal Justice Review 23 (2013): 295-306.

[Info] Zhang, Man. »Rape, Law, and Politics in Early 1950s China.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Virtual, 2021.


[Site] Indian History

Cases: Real Incidents: Partition of India; Representations: Films: Train to Pakistan; Literary Texts: Manju Kapur (Difficult Daughters), Manjula Padmanabhan, Bapsi Sidhwa (Ice Candy Man), Khushwant Singh, Yashpal (Jootha Sach); Types: Child Sexual Abuse, Gang Rape, Incestual Rape, Marital Rape, Wartime Rape

[Info] Devappa, Manjula. »Anti rape movement.« CLIO 6 (2020): 243-247.

[Info] Kathuria, Poonam. »Changing laws and unchanging statistics: Rape and rape laws in India.« Needs No Introduction. rabble podcast network, 2014.

[Info] Shrivastava, Nidhi. »Mass Rapes during the 1947 Partition and its Representation or Silencing in Hindi Cinema.« 51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston 2020.

[Info] Waxman, Rebecca. »Defining and Redefining Rape: Caste and Sexualized Violence in Late Colonial India.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Seattle 2024.


[Site] Indonesian History


[Site] Iraqi History


[Site] Israeli History

Types: Wartime Rape

[Info] Shapira, Tal. La presse israélienne contre le viol et le suicide entre les années 1958 et 1962. Thèse de doctorat, Université Paris 8, 2016.


[Site] Japanese History

Representations: Comics: Asaki yumemishi, Films: Angel of Darkness, Magic Woman M, Sex Demon Queen, Topâzu; Literary Texts: Yasunari Kawabata (Nemureru bijo); Types: Child Sexual Abuse, Interracial Rape, Wartime Rape

[Info] Kramm, Robert. Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Oakland 2017.

[Info] Kramm-Masaoka, Robert. Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zürich, 2015.

[Info] Perper, Timothy, et al. »Eroticism for the masses: Japanese manga comiss and their assimilation into the U.S.« Sexuality and Culture 6 (2002): 3-126.

[Info] Roebuck, Kristin A. »Rape, Race, and Eugenic Abortion in Occupied Japan.« Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Seattle 2024.

[Info] Walsh, Brian P. The Rape of Tokyo: Legends of Mass Sexual Violence and Exploitation during the Occupation of Japan. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2016.

[Info] Walsh, Brian. »Sexual Violence During the Occupation of Japan.« The Journal of Military History 82 (2018): 1199-1230.


[Site] Korean History

Representations: Press: Chosun-Ilbo, Dongah-Ilbo, Hankyoreh, Jungang-Ilbo; Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Nepalese History

Cases: Fictional Offenders: Suyogbir; Fictional Victims: Sakambari; Representations: Literary Texts: Parijat; Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Pakistani History

Cases: Real Incidents: Partition of India; Representations: Literary Texts: Bapsi Sidhwa (Ice Candy Man); Types: Child Sexual Abuse, Gang Rape, Wartime Rape

[Info] Gerlach, Christian. »Crowd Violence in East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971–1972.« Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader. Edited by Frank Jacob. Berlin 2019: 15-39.


[Site] Palestinian History

[Info] Alyagon Darr, Orna. Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine. Cambridge 2019.


[Site] Philippine History

Cases: Real Offenders: Susano Perez; Types: Same-Sex Rape


[Site] Singaporean History

Types: Same-Sex Rape


[Site] Sri Lancan History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Timorese History


[Site] Turkish History

Representations: Films: İffet; Press: Hürriyet; Types: Anal Rape, Genocidal Rape, Slave Rape, Wartime Rape


[Site] Vietnamese History


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

[Site] General

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Sadism: A history of non-consensual sexual cruelty.« The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy 2 (2020): 1-12.

[Info] Chesnais, Jean-Claude. Histoire de la violence en Occident de 1800 à nos jours. Paris 1981.

[Info] Chesnais, Jean-Claude. Storia della violenza in Occidente dal 1800 a oggi . Milan 1982.


[Site] Austrian History


[Site] Belgian History

[Info] Mathijs, Ernest, et al. »Refusing to Look at Rape: The Reception of Belgian Horror Cinema.« European Nightmares: European Horror Cinema since 1945. Edited by Patricia Allmer et al. London 2012: 35-48.


[Site] Bosnian History


[Site] Bulgarian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Croatian History

Representations: Films: Lisice; Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Cyprian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Czech History


[Site] Danish History


[Site] Dutch History

[Info] Bergers, Lara. »A culture of testimony: The importance of 'speaking witnesses' in Dutch sexual crimes investigations and trials, 1930-1960.« Forensic cultures in modern Europe. Edited by Willemijn Ruberg et al. Manchester 2023: 49-70.

[Info] Ruiter, Lisanne E.R. de. ‘[Her sister] is not much more than a prostitute. Who dartes to believe the complainant?’: Rape cases, experts and witnesses of respectability (1920-1933). Master Thesis, Utrecht University, 2015.


[Site] English History

[Info] Birkel, Christoph, et al. Die Entwicklung der Gewaltkriminalität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, England/Wales und Schweden in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Halle 2004.

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Sexual violation and trauma in historical perspective.« Arbor No. 743 (2010): 407-416.

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Police surgeons and victims of rape: Cultures of harm and care.« Social History of Medicine 31 (2018): 711-731.

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »‘Animal Instincts’: The sexual abuse of women with learning difficulties, 1830s-1910s.« Women's History Review 29 (2020): 1201-1217.

[Info] D’Cruze, Shani. »Approaching the History of Rape and Sexual Violence: Notes towards research.« Women's History Review 1 (1992): 377-397.

[Info] Jamel, Joanna. »Do the Print Media Provide a Gendre-Biased Representation of Male Rape Victims?« Internet Journal of Criminology (January 2014).

[Info] Monckton-Smith, Jane. Deconstructing the House that Jack Built: An Examination of the Discursive Regime of Sexual Murder. Ph.D. Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006.

[Info] Monckton-Smith, Jane. Relating Rape and Murder: Narratives of Sex, Death and Gender. New York 2010.

[Info] Sood, Asmita, et al. »Cultural History of Sexual Violence.« Talking Research (January 8, 2020).

[Info] Soothill, Keith, et al. »Judges, the Media, and Rape.« Journal of Law and Society 17 (1990): 211-233.

[Info] Thome, Helmut, et al. Sozialer Wandel und Gewaltkriminalität: Deutschland, England und Schweden im Vergleich, 1950 bis 2000. Wiesbaden 2007.


[Site] Estonian History


[Site] Finnish History

[Info] Frisk, Matleena, et al. »Remembering rape: The temporal construction of sexual violence in autobiographical narratives from 1990s Finland.« Sexualities (February 14, 2021).

[Info] Kotanen, Rikka. »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.

[Info] Vuorela, Miikka. »The historical criminal statistics of Finland 1842-2015: A systematic comparision to Sweden.« International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 42 (2018): 95-117.


[Site] French History


[Site] German History

[Info] Birkel, Christoph, et al. Die Entwicklung der Gewaltkriminalität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, England/Wales und Schweden in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Halle 2004.

[Info] Birkel, Christoph. Gewaltkriminalität: Zur Bedeutung von Politikproduktion und parteipolitischer Färbung der Landesregierungen. Halle 2008.

[Info] Birkel, Christoph. Die Entwicklung der Gewaltkriminalität in Deutschland: Theoretische Erklärungsansätze im empirischen Vergleich. Wiesbaden 2015.

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

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

[Info] Eitler, Pascal. »Das „Reich der Sinne“? Pornographie, Philosophie und die Brutalisierung der Sexualität (Westdeutschland 1968-1988).« Body Politics 1 (2013): 259-296.

[Info] Hall, Sarah C.S. »The Concentration Camp VS. The Gulag: A Close Look at the Gendered Experience of Female Prisoners in the Form of Rape and Sexual Assault.« 12th Annual Thompson Rivers University Philosophy, History, and Politics Undergraduate Conference. Kamloops 2019.

[Info] Hill. Alexandra. »The Violent Turn: Rape as Social and Environmental Domination.« 48th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2017.

[Info] Koch, Angela. DruckBilder: Stereotype und Geschlechtercodes in der antipolnischen Diskursen der »Gartenlaube« (1870-1930). Cologne 2002.

[Info] Koch, Angela. »Das Begehren des Anderen: "Hochzeit" und "Vergewaltigung" im antipolnischen Diskurs der Gartenlaube.« Fremdes Begehren: Transkulturelle Beziehungen in Literatur, Kunst und Medien. Edited by Eva Lezzi et al. Cologne 2003: 70-81.

[Info] Kölbel, Ralf. »Kriminalität in der alten Bundesrepublik (1949–1990).« Strafrecht in der alten Bundesrepublik 1949–1990: Grundlagen, Allgemeiner Teil und Rechtsfolgenseite im zeitgeschichtlichen Spiegel von Gesellschaft und Politik. Edited by Georg Steinberg et al. Baden-Baden 2020: 137-172.

[Info] Psonka, Martin. Strafverfahren gegen Minderjährige im Dritten Reich am Beispiel des Sondergerichts Dortmund. Dissertation, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2019.

[Info] Thome, Helmut, et al. Sozialer Wandel und Gewaltkriminalität: Deutschland, England und Schweden im Vergleich, 1950 bis 2000. Wiesbaden 2007.


[Site] Greek History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Hungarian History


[Site] Icelandic History

[Info] Bragadóttir, Ragnhei?ur. »Legislation on the offence of rape in Icelandic criminal law.« Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 8 (2020): 54-77.


[Site] Irish History

[Info] Earner-Byrne, Lindsey, et al. The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920-2018. Cham 2019.

[Info] Jamel, Joanna. »Do the Print Media Provide a Gendre-Biased Representation of Male Rape Victims?« Internet Journal of Criminology (January 2014).


[Site] Italian History

[Info] Pelizzari, Maria R. »Il corpo nei racconti di stupro: Maschile/femminile in alcuni processi del primo Novecento.« Il corpo e il suo doppio. Storia e cultura. Edited by Mara R. Pelizzari. 2007: 101-118.

[Info] Van Cleave, Rachel A. »Rape and the Querela in Italy: False Protection of Victim Agency.« Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 13 (2007): 273-310.

[Info] Vitale, Antonella. Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy, 1945-Present. Ph.D. Thesis, City University of New York, 2020.


[Site] Lithuanian History

[Info] Kareniauskait?, Monika. »Gender Based Violence in Soviet Lithuania: Forms, Density, Reasons, Sanctions and Prevention.« 51st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. San Francisco 2019.


[Site] Norwegian History

[Info] Jacobsen, Jørn, et al. »Reforming the rape offence in Norwegian criminal law.« Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 8 (2020): 78-94.


[Site] Polish History

[Info] Jurczak, Aleksandra. Przestępstwo zgwałcenia w świetle prawa kanonicznego Kościoła Katolickiego i prawa polskiego. Master Thesis, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2018.

[Info] Koch, Angela. DruckBilder: Stereotype und Geschlechtercodes in der antipolnischen Diskursen der »Gartenlaube« (1870-1930). Cologne 2002.

[Info] Koch, Angela. »Das Begehren des Anderen: "Hochzeit" und "Vergewaltigung" im antipolnischen Diskurs der Gartenlaube.« Fremdes Begehren: Transkulturelle Beziehungen in Literatur, Kunst und Medien. Edited by Eva Lezzi et al. Cologne 2003: 70-81.

[Info] Kościańska, Agnieszka. »The Medicalization of Rape: Regulating Female Sexuality through Expert Discourse and Court Practices in Poland from the 1970s to Present.« Sexual Cultures: Theory, Practice, Research. London 2012.

[Info] Kościańska, Agnieszka. »„Nie” znaczy „tak”? Dyskurs ekspercki na temat przemocy seksualnej wobec kobiet w prasie polskiej od lat 70. XX w. do dzi?.« Zeszytach Etnologii Wroc?awskiej 16 (2012): 37-53.

[Info] Kościańska, Agnieszka. »Gender on Trial: Changes in Legal and Discursive Practices Concerning Sexual Violence in Poland from the 1970s to the Present.« Ethnologia Europaea 50 (2020): 111-127.

[Info] Kościańska, Agnieszka. Gender, Pleasure, and Violence. The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland. Bloomington 2021.

[Info] Kościańska, Agnieszka. Płeć, przyjemność i przemoc. Kształtowanie wiedzy eksperckiej o seksualności w Polsce. Warsaw 2021.

[Info] Marek, Magdalena. Prawna i kryminologiczna problematyka przestępstwa zgwałcenia ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem zagadnienia trybu ścigania. Master Thesis, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 2020.

[Info] Massino, Jill, int. Gender, Pleasure, and Violence. The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland. New Books in Eastern European Studies. New Books Network 2021.

[Info] Zok, Michael. »Wider die „angeborene und nationale Mission der Frau“? Gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen um Abtreibungen in Polen seit der Entstalinisierung.« Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 68 (2019): 249-278.


[Site] Portuguese History

Representations: Literary Texts: Mário Cláudio; Types: Wartime Rape

[Info] Ventura, Isabel. Medusa no Palácio da Justiça: Imagens sobre mulheres, sexualidade e violência a partir dos discursos e práticas judiciais. Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade do Minho, 2016.

[Info] Ventura, Isabel. Medusa no Palácio da Justiça ou Uma História da Violação Sexual. Lisbon 2018.


[Site] Romanian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Russian History

[Info] Hall, Sarah C.S. »The Concentration Camp VS. The Gulag: A Close Look at the Gendered Experience of Female Prisoners in the Form of Rape and Sexual Assault.« 12th Annual Thompson Rivers University Philosophy, History, and Politics Undergraduate Conference. Kamloops 2019.

[Info] Kareniauskait?, Monika. »Gender Based Violence in Soviet Lithuania: Forms, Density, Reasons, Sanctions and Prevention.« 51st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. San Francisco 2019.

[Info] Kowalsky, Sharon A. »Reconsidering Rape and Sexual Violence in Revolutionary Russia.« 46th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. San Antonio 2014.

[Info] Shelshakova, Natalia N. »Vandalism in castles, Tentors and the enhanced core of the historical Russian city.« Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers 12 (2021): 123-131.


[Site] Scottish History

Representations: Literary Texts: Eleanor Brown ("Leda, No Swan"), Carol Ann Duffy ("Leda", "Medusa"); Types: Gang Rape, Same-Sex Rape

[Info] Heren, Louise. 'An ugly epoch': Male sexual violence in interwar Scotland, 1918-1930. Ph.D. Thesis, St Andrews University, 2020.

[Info] Heren, Louise. Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland: Incest, Rape, Lewd and Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930 London 2023.


[Site] Serbian History

Cases: Real Victims: Irene B.; Representations: Films: Doru?ak sa ?avolom, Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji


[Site] Spanish History


[Site] Swedish History

[Info] Andersson, Ulrika, et al. »Contesting Contemporary Case Law: Narratives of Rape in Cases from the Supreme Court of Sweden 1988-2013.« 11th European Social Scinece History Conference. Valencia 2016.

[Info] Bergenheim, Åsa. »Gränsen för det otillåtna: Om synen på våldtäkt i Sverige 1950-2010.« Antologi: Sju perspektiv på våldtäkt. Uppsala 2010: 10-30.

[Info] Birkel, Christoph, et al. Die Entwicklung der Gewaltkriminalität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, England/Wales und Schweden in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Halle 2004.

[Info] Bladini, Moa, et al. »Swedish rape legislation from use of force to voluntariness: Critical reflections from an everday life perspective.« Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 8 (2020): 95-125.

[Info] Bytyqi, Selim. Samtyckeregleringens vara eller icke vara: Vilka skäl talar för respektive emot en samtyckesbaserad regleringsmodell? B.A. Thesis, Lunds universitet, 2016.

[Info] Dani, Maide. The Right to Engage or Refrain: A qualitative study on the debate regarding sexual crime legislation in Sweden since 1965. Bachelor Thesis, Malmö universitet, 2019.

[Info] Edgren, Monika. »Tala tillbaka, tala som ”other” i domstolsnarrativ om våldtäkt: Några nedslag under de senaste decennierna.« Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 39 (2018): 116-135.

[Info] Johansson, Max. SOU och sexualitet: Diskursen kring sexuella övergrepp i fyra offentliga utredningar, 1976–2016. Thesis, Lunds universitet, 2019.

[Info] Nilsson, Gabriella. »Rape in the News: Narratives of Victim and Perpetrator of Sexual Violence in Swedish News Media, 1990-2015.« 11th European Social Scinece History Conference. Valencia 2016.

[Info] Tarvainen, Teemu. Outlook on Foreigners’ Crime in the Swedish Parliament during 1964-1971: The Crime of the Finns in Special Consideration. Master Thesis, Itä-Suomen yliopisto, 2010.

[Info] Thome, Helmut, et al. Sozialer Wandel und Gewaltkriminalität: Deutschland, England und Schweden im Vergleich, 1950 bis 2000. Wiesbaden 2007.

[Info] Vuorela, Miikka. »The historical criminal statistics of Finland 1842-2015: A systematic comparision to Sweden.« International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 42 (2018): 95-117.


[Site] Swiss History


[Site] Ukrainian History

Types: Wartime Rape


[Site] Vatican History


[Site] Welsh History

[Info] Birkel, Christoph, et al. Die Entwicklung der Gewaltkriminalität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, England/Wales und Schweden in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Halle 2004.


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

[Site] Australian History

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »Her Protests Were Unavailing: Australian Legal Understandings of Rape, Consent and Sexuality in the 'Roaring Twenties'.« Annual Conference of the Association of Australian Studies in North America. Ottawa 2000.

[Info] Barber, R.N., et al. »Deterrent Aspect of Capital Punishment and its Effect on Conviction Rates: The Queensland Experience.« Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 1 (1968): 100-108.

[Info] Barber, Ross N. Rape and Other Sexual Offences in Queensland: An Historical and Behavioural Analysis. M.A. Thesis, University of Queensland, 1970.

[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.

[Info] Bell, Diane. »Intraracial Rape Revisited: On Forging a Feminist Future Beyond Factions and Frightening Politics.« Women's Studies International Forum 14 (1991): 385-412.

[Info] Cockburn, Helen M. The Impact of Introducing an Affirmative Model of Consent and Changes to the Defence of Mistake in Tasmanian Rape Trials. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tasmania, 2012.

[Info] Collins, Anne-Maree. »Testimonies of Sex: Rape in Queensland, 1880-1919.« Journal of Australian Studies 15 (1991): 50-63.

[Info] Jamel, Joanna. »Do the Print Media Provide a Gendre-Biased Representation of Male Rape Victims?« Internet Journal of Criminology (January 2014).

[Info] Kaladelfos, Amanda. »Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials in 1950s Australia.« 32nd Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association. Wollongong 2013.

[Info] Kennedy, Jessica, et al. »How protected is she? "Fairness" and the rape victim witness in Australia.« Women's Studies International Forum 35 (2012): 334-342.

[Info] Lake, Marilyn. »The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945.« Gender & History 8 (1996): 197-211.

[Info] Lake, Marilyn. »The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia, 1900-1945.« Feminism, the Public and the Private. Edited by Joan B. Landes. Oxford 1998: 223-240.

[Info] Larcombe, Wendy. Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction. Annandale 2005.

[Info] Mason, Gail. »Reforming the Law of Rape: Incursions into the Masculinist Sanctum.« Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives of Law in Australia. Edited by Diane Kirkby. Melbourne 1996: 50-67.

[Info] Perkins, Diane M. Crime in the north-west 1925-1950. M.A. Thesis, University of Queensland, 1994.

[Info] Sullivan, Barbara. »Rape, Prostitution and Consent.« Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 40 (2007): 127-142.


[Site] New Caledonian History


[Site] New Zealand History

[Info] Barton, Angela M. It’s The Same Old Story: Rape Representation in New Zealand Newspapers (1975 - 2015). Master Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017.

[Info] Bauchop, Heather. The Public Image of Rape in New Zealand: A Case Study of Two Newspapers 1950-1970. Honours Thesis, University of Otago, 1990.

[Info] McDonald, Heather L. Rape crisis services ‘Standing Alone’. Policy-making as problem representation: The response to sexual violence in New Zealand 1983-89. M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2017.

[Info] Newbold, Greg. »Violent crime.« Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Edited by Jock Philips. Wellington 2011.

[Info] Sullivan, Barbara. »Rape, Prostitution and Consent.« Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 40 (2007): 127-142.

[Info] Vanderpyl, Jane. Aspiring for unity and equality: Dynamics of conflict and change in the ‘by women for women’ feminist service groups, Aotearoa/New Zealand (1970-1999). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004.

[Info] Workman, Joanne. Representing Rapists: Popular Perceptions of Rapists in New Zealand, 1900-1920. Honors Thesis, University of Otago, 1994.

[Info] Zydervelt, Sarah, et al. »Lawyers' Strategies for Cross-Examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved Beyong the 1950s?« British Journal of Criminology 57 (2017): 551-569.


[Site] Papua New Guinean History


[Site] Samoan History

Representations: Literary Texts: Sia Figiel; Types: Interracial Rape

[Info] Shankman, Paul. »Interethnic Unions and the Regulation of Sex in Colonial Samoa, 1830-1945.« Journal of the Polynesian Society 110 (2001): 119-147.


[Site] Solomon Islands History

Types: Wartime Rape