Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

Introduction

+ Aims & Scope

+ Structure

+ History


Announcements

+ Updates

+ Calls for Papers

+ New Lectures

+ New Publications


Alphabetical Index

+ Author Index

+ Speaker Index


Chronological Index

+ Ancient History

+ Medieval History

+ Modern History


Geographical Index

+ African History

+ American History

+ Asian History

+ European History

+ Oceanian History


Topical Index

+ Prosecution

+ Cases

+ Types

+ Offenders

+ Victims

+ Society

+ Research

+ Representations


Resources

+ Institutions

+ Literature Search

+ Research

Start: Topical Index: Types: Sexual Assault:

Types: Sexual Assault:
SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE 19TH CENTURY

[Site] G e n e r a l

[Info] Mayes, Danielle. »Intellectual Functioning and Sexual Crime: A Historical Context.« Sexual Crime and Intellectual Functioning. Edited by Kerensa Hocken et al. Cham 2020: 1-28.


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

[Site] Brazilian History

[Info] Estacheski, Dulceli. Os crimes sexuais na Cidade de Castro – PR (1890-1920).Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2013.

[Info] Estacheski, Dulceli. Crimes sexuais: A histo?rica culpabilizac?a?o das vi?timas. Curitiba 2017.

[Info] Estacheski, Dulceli. »Crimes sexuais, violência doméstica e suicídios de mulheres: Uma análise de processos criminais e inquéritos policiais de Castro/Paraná (1890-1940).« Nova História das Mulheres no Paraná. Edited by Georgiane G.H. Vázquez. Porto Alegre 2020: 159-180.


[Site] Canadian History

[Info] Erickson, Lesley. Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society. Vancouver 2011.


[Site] Caribbean History

Victims: Narratives: The History of Mary Prince


[Site] Mexican History

[Info] Elizondo, Lizeth. »Malice of the Human Heart: Assault and Sexual Consent in the Northern Borderlands of Spanish Texas and Coahuila, 1700-1821.« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.

[Info] Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. »Configurations within a Pattern of Violence: The Geography of Sexual Danger in Mexico, 1750-1856.« 109th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Chicago 1995.

[Info] Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. »The Scripts of Violence: Symbolism and Language in Everyday Conflicts: Mexico 1750-1856.« 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Chicago 2003.

[Info] Saénz Rangel, José R. Las mujeres en los delitos sexuales: Representaciones sociales en Tamaulipas en el Porfiriato. Me?xico, D.F. 2021.


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Victims: Luke; Types: Clergy Sexual Abuse

[Info] Esty, Kaisha. »“[Y]ou had the impudence to offer a decent woman like myself a dollar”: Black Women, Sexual Assault, and the Struggle for Sexual Sovereignty in the Late 19th Century.« 114th Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Virtual 2021.

[Info] Michals, Debra, chair. »Silencing and Erasure in North America: Comparative Histories of Violence against Women and Children, 19th–21st Century.« 117th OAH Conference on American History. New Orleans 2024.


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

[Site] English History

[Info] Cox, Kimberly. »Uninvited Touch: Reading Sexual Violence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.« 2015 MLA Annual Convention. Vancouver 2015.

[Info] Startup, Radojka. Damaging Females: Representations of women as victims and perpetrators of crime in the mid nineteenth century. Ph.D. Thesis, University College London, 2000.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. »The Respectability Imperative: A Golden Rule in Cases of Sexual Assault?« The Golden Age. Nottingham 1999.

[Info] Stevenson, Kim. »Fulfilling their Mission: The Intervention of Voluntary Societies in Cases of Sexual Assault in the Victorian Criminal Process.« Crime, History and Society 8 (2004): 93-110.


[Site] French History

[Info] Kleiman, Anna. »Leave Olympia Alone: Reversing the Approach Toward the Parisian Salon Scandal of 1865.« Scandalogy 4: Political Scandals in the Age of Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization. Edited by André Haller et al. Cham 2024: 93-107.


[Site] Scottish History

Representations: Literary Texts: Walter Scott

[Info] Telling, Hannah R. The legal regulation of male violence in Scotland, 1850-1914. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2020.


[Site] Welsh History

[Info] Watson, Katherine D. »Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales.« Continuity and Change 28 (2013): 245-272.


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

[Site] Australian History

[Info] Allen, Judith A. Sex & Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women Since 1880. Melbourne 1990.

[Info] Bongiorno, Frank. The Sex Lives of Australians: A History. Collingwood 2012.

[Info] Fidler, Richard, et al. »Frank Bongiorno on the history of Australian sex lives.« Conversations with Richard Fidler. Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2012.

[Info] Kaladelfos, Amanda. Crime and Outrage: Sexual Villains and Sexual Violence in New South Wales, 1870-1930. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 2010.


[Site] New Zealand History

[Info] Severinsen, Tony G. 'Easy to Charge, Hard to Disprove': Responses to Sexual Assault on Women in New Zealand, 1860-1910. M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995.