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: Victims: Age and Gender: Female Children:

Victims: Age and Gender:
FEMALE CHILD VICTIMS IN THE 20TH CENTURY

[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Beninese History

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Viol[ated]: Rape as a Disabling Crime Against Girls in Colonial Dahomey (1936-1938).« Critical Juncture Conference. Atlanta 2013.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Street Hawking or Street Walking? Petites Vendeuses and Sexual Assault in French West Africa.« 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2015.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »‘Until I Bathed in the Light of Day’: Sexual Assault of Girls as an Intergenerational Trauma in Colonial West Africa.« Soul Wounds: Trauma and Healing across Generations. Stanford 2015.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Irresponsible Boys, Promiscuous Girls: Maturity, Gender, and Rape Myths in the Criminal Tribunals of Colonial Dahomey, 1924-1940.« Revue d'histoire de l'enfance "irrégulière" No. 20 (2018): 67-84.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–41.« The Journal of African History (November 1, 2022): 1-16.


[Site] Cameroonian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Calixthe Beyala (Tu t'appelleras Tanga)


[Site] Congolese History

[Info] Murphy, Ray. »An Assessment of UN Efforts to Address Sexual Misconduct by Peacekeeping Personnel.« International Peacekeeping 13 (2006): 531-546.

[Info] Murphy, Ray. »An Assessment of UN Efforts to Address Sexual Misconduct by Peacekeeping Personnel.« Peace Operations and Human Rights. Edited by Ray Murphy et al. London 2008: 75-90.


[Site] Nigerian History

[Info] Adesina, Oluwakemi A. »The ‘Girl-Hawking War’ in Colonial Lagos.« A History of the Girl: Formation, Education and Identity. Edited by Mary O'Dowd et al. Cham 2018: 225-236.


[Site] Zimbabwean History

Representations: Literary Texts: Yvonne Vera (Under the Tongue)

[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.


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

[Site] Canadian History

Cases: Fictional Victims: Thelma Barley; Real Victims: Yvonne Johnson

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth-Century Canada and Australia.« Queen's Law Journal 26 (2001): 297-338.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth-Century Canada and Australia.« From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada. Edited by Pierre Boyer et al. Ottawa 2004: 123-160.

[Info] Backhouse, Constance. »Sexually Abused Children as Witnesses: Lessons from History.« Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law. Berlin 2007.

[Info] Janke, Jennifer. Where the Evil Surprises Lay: The Rapes and Sexual Murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French and Fear Mongering in the City of St. Catherines. Ph.D. Thesis, York University, 2010.


[Site] Chilean History

[Info] Faúndez, Ximena, et al. »Memories of Boys, Girls, and Adolescent Victims of Political Prison and Torture by the Chilean Military–Civilian Dictatorship.« Journal of Interpersonal Violence (August 21, 2017).


[Site] Cuban History

Cases: Fictional Victims: Cuca Martínez; Representations: Literary Texts: Zoé Valdés (Te di la vida entera)


[Site] Mexican History

[Info] Beck, Evelyn T. »Kahlo’s World Split Open.« Feminist Studies 32 (2006): 54-81.

[Info] González-López, Gloria. »Incest revisited: A Mexican Catholic priest and his daughter.« Sexualities 16 (2013): 401-422.

[Info] Sosenski, Susana. »Sexual Abuse of Girls in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Between Legitimation and Punishment.« Girlhood Studies 14 (2021): 36-51.


[Site] U.S. History

Cases: Fictional Victims: Scarlet Fasinera, Dolores Haze, Rhea Kunkel, Rhoda Kunkel; Real Victims: Dylan Farrow; Representations: Comics: A Child’s Life and Other Stories, Moon Knight

[Info] Barringer, Carol E. »The Survivor's Voice: Breaking The Incest Taboo.« NWSA Journal 4 (1992): 4-22.

[Info] Churchwell, Sarah. »'Be a Good Girl': The Violation of Marilyn Monroe.« Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence. Warwick 2007.

[Info] Coffey, Michele G. »The State of Louisiana v. Charles Guerand: Interracial Sexual Mores, Rape Rhetoric, and Respectability in 1930s New Orleans.« Louisiana History 54 (2013): 47-94.

[Info] Dinnerstein, Leonard. »Leo Frank Case.« New Georgia Encyclopedia. Edited by John C. Inscoe. Atlanta 2006.

[Info] Greenwood, Lynn M. »Dugard, Jaycee, Kidnapping of (1991).« Crimes of the Centuries: Notorious Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Trials in American History. Vol. 1. Edited by Steven Chermak et al. Santa Barbara 2016: 233-236.

[Info] Hobbs, Tameka B. "Hitler is Here": Lynching in Florida During the Era of World War II. Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State University, 2004.

[Info] McGuigan, William M., et al. »A Single-Case Study of Resiliency After Extreme Incest in an Old Order Amish Family.« Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 24 (2015): 526-537.

[Info] Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill 1995.

[Info] Planty, Michael, et al. Female Victims of Sexual Violence, 1994-2010. Washington, DC 2013.

[Info] Saunders, Edward. »Celebrity, Scriptedness and Alleged Sexual Violence in Ghost-Written Autobiographies by Julian Assange and Samantha Geimer.« European Journal of Life Writing 4 (2015): VC85-VC107.

[Info] Srivats, Priya S. From Dolores Haze to Dakota Fanning: How Nabokov's Little Girl Went from Being a Victim of Sexual Assault to a Fashion Icon. B.A. Thesis, Women's College Claremont, 2013.

[Info] Witham Jr., William L. »Soldiers, Crowds, Tear Gas and A Death Sentence.« Delaware Lawyer 34 (2016): 22-25.

[Info] Zgoba, Kristen M. »Sex Crimes.« The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology. Edited by J. Mitchell Miller. Hoboken 2014: 777-78?.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Burmese History

Cases: Real Victims: Ainah


[Site] Indian History

[Info] Prakash, Surya. »Incestuous Relations in Silence! The Court is in Session and Thirty Days has September: A Comparative Study.« Language in India 15 (2015): 298-316.


[Site] Japanese History

Cases: Real Victims: Yumiko Nagayama

[Info] Devaney, Leah. The Rape of Okinawa: Sexual Violence and Popular Protest in the Shadow of the US Military. M.A. Thesis, Utrecht University, 2018.


[Site] Korean History

Cases: Real Victims: Won-ok Gil, Okpun Yi

[Info] Kim, Booja. »Why were girls the majority among the Korean comfort women?« 17th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hempstead 2017.


[Site] Palestinian History

Cases: Real Victims: Jamila


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

[Site] Austrian History

Cases: Real Victims: Elisabeth Fritzl

[Info] Friedmann, Ina. »Von der „Schuld“ der Opfer: Die Behandlung von Kindern, die Opfer sexueller Gewalt wurden, an der Heilpädagogischen Abteilung der Wiener Universitäts-Kinderklinik im 20. Jahrhundert.« zeitgeschichte|online (June 1, 2017).

[Info] Friedmann, Ina. »Die Gutachten der Heilpädagogischen Abteilung der Wiener Universitäts-Kinderklinik: Funktionen, Inhalte und Auswirkungen im 20. Jahrhundert.« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 31 (2020): 102-123.

[Info] Kirchknopf, Johann K. »Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder im österreichischen Strafrecht des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein Delikt und Strukturmerkmal zugleich.« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 28 (2017): 106-132.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »Adoleszente Mädchen und die strafrechtlichen Bestimmungen zum Schutzalter (1950-1980).« 4es Journées suisses d'histoire. Lausanne 2016.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »Die Grenzen der Kindheit und die Grenzen der "Schutzwürdigkeit": Sexuelle Kindesmisshandlung vor österreichischen Gerichten (1950-1970).« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 28 (2017): 133-156.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »“She doesn’t look like a child”: Girls and Age of Consent Regulations in Austria (1950-1970).« Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 10 (2017): 104-122.

[Info] Wisinger, Marion. »"Ich weiß nicht, ob man sich so was vorstellen kann." Über den Erkenntnisprozess der Kommission Wilhelminenberg.« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 25 (2014): 320-330.


[Site] Bosnian History

[Info] Gaca, Kathy L. »The Marital Rape of Girls and Women in Antiquity and Modernity.« The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict. Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin et al. Oxford 2018: 306-315.


[Site] Dutch History

Cases: Real Victims: Dientje Kalisky, Sophia Veffer


[Site] English History

Cases: Real Victims: Andrea Ashworth, Lesley Ann Downey; Representations: Comics: Becoming Unbecoming; Literary Texts: Pat Barker, Deborah Moggach (Porky), Rachel Trezise

[Info] Brookes, Barbara, et al. »Rex v. Bourne and the medicalization of abortion.« Legal Medicine in History. Edited by Michael Clark et al. Cambridge 1994: 314-343.

[Info] Murray, Yxta M. »Rape Trauma, the State, and the Art of Tracey Emin.« California Law Review 100 (2012): 1631-1710.


[Site] Estonian History

Cases: Fictional Victims: Linda Pekk; Representations: Literary Texts: Sofi Oksanen (Purge)


[Site] German History

Cases: Real Incidents: Lutheran Church Sexual Abuse Cases

[Info] Beyer, Susanne. »14 Tage lebenslänglich.« Spiegel No. 8 (2010): 106-109.

[Info] Bundschuh, Claudia. Sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder in Institutionen. Nationaler und internationaler Forschungsstand. Expertise im Rahmen des Projekts "Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Mädchen und Jungen in Institutionen". Munich 2010.

[Info] Igney, Claudia. »Sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen in der DDR und den neuen Bundesländern.« Gewalt verrückt die Seele: Eine Untersuchung zu Hilfsangeboten im psychosozialen und medizinischen Bereich in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Dolgen 1999: 16-25.

[Info] Kerchner, Brigitte. »Körperpolitik: Die Konstruktion des »Kinderschänders« in der Zwischenkriegszeit.« Politische Kulturgeschichte der Zwischenkriegszeit 1918-1939. Edited by Wolfgang Hardtwig. Göttingen 2006: 241-278.

[Info] Sachse, Christian, et al. Sexueller Missbrauch in der DDR: Historische, rechtliche und psychologische Hintergründe des sexuellen Missbrauchs an Kindern und Jugendlichen in der DDR. Wiesbaden 2018.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. »Pipel: Homosexual Exploitation of Young Men and Women in Nazi Concentration Camps.« 11th Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference. Boca Raton 2010.


[Site] Irish History

Cases: Real Victims: Regina Walsh


[Site] Italian History

Cases: Real Victims: Maria Goretti


[Site] Polish History

[Info] Wood, Nathaniel D. »Sex Scandals, Sexual Violence and the Word on the Street: The Kolasówna Lustmord in Cracow's Popular Press, 1905-1906.« Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (2011): 243-269.


[Site] Russian History

[Info] Beyer, Susanne. »14 Tage lebenslänglich.« Spiegel No. 8 (2010): 106-109.


[Site] Scottish History

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


[Site] Swedish History

Representations: Films: Thriller – en grym film


[Site] Swiss History

Representations: Films: Es geschah am hellichten Tag


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

[Site] Australian History

[Info] Anderson, Jennifer. »Using the Law: Working-Class Communities and Carnal Knowledge Cases in Victoria, 1900-06.« Past Law, Present Histories. Edited by Diane Kirkby. Canberra 2012: 85-105.

[Info] Mathews, Ben, et al. »Reports of child sexual abuse of boys and girls: Longitudinal trends over a 20-year period in Victoria, Australia.« Child Abuse & Neglect 66 (2017): 9-22.


[Site] New Zealand History

Cases: Real Victims: Bella M.