Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Victims: Mental Consequences: Trauma:

Victims: Mental Consequences:
TRAUMATIZED VICTIMS IN THE 20TH CENTURY

[Info] Bates, Victoria. »‘Misery Loves Company’: Sexual Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Market for Misery.« Journal of Medical Humanities 33 (2012): 61-81.

[Info] Li, Lin. »Rethinking the Resistance-Agency-Humanity Triangle: Trauma and Rehabilitation in the Aftermath of Japan’s Wartime Sexual Violence.« Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. San Francisco 2019.


[Site] A f r i c a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Cameroonian History

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


[Site] Rwandan History

[Info] Löfström, Silja. Bearing Witness to Trauma: An Analysis of Testimonies of Rape in The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence. Master's Thesis, Tampereen yliopisto, 2015.

[Info] Mukamana, Donatilla, et al. »Genocide Rape Trauma: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Psychological Suffering of Rwandan Survivors.« Research and Theory for Nursing Practice 32 (2018): 125-143.

[Info] Rieder, Heide, et al. »Rwanda -- lasting imprints of a genocide: trauma, mental health and psychosocial conditions in survivors, former prisoners and their children.« Conflict and Health 7 (2013).

[Info] Rugema, Lawrence, et al. »Traumatic episodes experienced during the genocide period in Rwanda influence life circumstances in young men and women 17 years later.« BMC Public Health 13 (2013).


[Site] Sierra Leonen History

[Info] Ibrahim, Aisha F. War's Other Voices: Testimonies by Sierra Leonean Women. Ph.D. Thesis, Illinois State University, 2006.


[Site] Zimbabwean History

[Info] Dodhy, Shamaila. »Traumatic Memory and Legacy of Anxiety in Yvonne Vera's Under the TongueRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 9 (2017): 234-242.


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

[Site] Haitian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Edwidge Danticat


[Site] U.S. History

Representations: Films: The Accused; Literary Texts: Patricia Chao, Frances Driscoll (The Rape Poems), Carolivia Herron, Jane Smiley, Betsy Warland (The Bat Had Blue Eyes)

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

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Sexual Violence, Bodily Pain, and Trauma: A History.« Theory, Culture & Society 29 (2012): 25-51.

[Info] Gandouz, Olfa. »"Stop This Hysterical Outburst and Tell Me What's Happened?": Gendered Rape Trauma Syndrome of the Fallen Madonna in Tennessee Williams‘s A Streetcar Named DesireDe Facto Trauma Reconsidered. Edited by Faten Haouioui. Newcastle upon Tyne 2021: 69-83.

[Info] Grogan, Christine. Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless. Lanham 2016.

[Info] Kang, Han, et al. »The Role of Sexual Assault on the Risk of PTSD among Gulf War Veterans.« Annals of Epidemiology 15 (2005): 191-195.

[Info] Smith, Brian, et al. »Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology as a Mediator of the Association Between Military Sexual Trauma and Post-Deployment Physical Health in Women« Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 12 (2011): 275-289.


[Site] A s i a n   H i s t o r y

[Site] Japanese History

[Info] Tsukamoto, Sachiyo. The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese "Comfort Women". London 2022.


[Site] Korean History

[Info] Lee, Jeewon, et al. »The Author Reply: Major Difficulties in Pursuing Research on Offspring of Former “Comfort Women” in Korea.« Psychiatry Investigation 16 (2019): 477-478.

[Info] Lee, Jeewon, et al. »Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: Psychiatric Evaluation of Offspring of Former “Comfort Women,”Survivors of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery during World War II.« Psychiatry Investigation 16 (2019): 249-253.

[Info] Park, Jee H.A., et al. »Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women” System: Understanding the Lifelong Consequences of Early Life Trauma.« Journal of Gerontological Social Work (June 28, 2016).

[Info] Park, Seon-Cheol. »Role of Putative Epigenetic Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Effects in “Comfort Women” Survivor Offspring.« Psychiatry Investigation 16 (2019): 475-476.


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

[Site] Austrian History

[Info] Berger, Ernst, et al. »Gewalt in Wiener Heimen zwischen 1945 und 1990 – eine retrospektive Studie aus psychotraumatologischer Perspektive.« neuropsychiatrie 27 (2013): 188-195.

[Info] Lueger-Schuster, Brigitte, et al. »Sexual violence by occupational forces during and after World War II: Influence of experiencing and witnessing of sexual violence on current mental health in a sample of elderly Austrians.« International Psychogeriatrics 24 (2012): 1354-1358.

[Info] Lueger-Schuster, Brigitte. »Wartime Rape: Influence on Current Mental Health in a Sample of Elderly Austrians.« V World Congress on Traumatic Stress. Mexico City 2012.


[Site] Bosnian History

[Info] Ganzevoort, R. Ruard, et al. »Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma.« Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture. Edited by Yochai Ataria et al. Cham 2016: 339-351.

[Info] Takševa, Tatjana. »War Trauma and Healing, Successes and Challenges: In Conversation with Bosnian Women Rape Survivors.« 21st Century Reflections on Sexual Violence in Wars, its Transgenerational and Transnational Impact. Ottawa 2018.


[Site] Croatian History

[Info] Olujic, Maria B. »Women, Rape, and War: The Continued Trauma of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Croatia.« Anthropology of East Europe Review 13 (1995): 62-67.


[Site] English History

Representations: Comics: Becoming Unbecoming; Literary Texts: Bryony Lavery, Antonia White

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

[Info] Bourke, Joanna. »Sexual Violence, Bodily Pain, and Trauma: A History.« Theory, Culture & Society 29 (2012): 25-51.

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


[Site] German History

[Info] Baldwin, Annabelle. »Sexual Violence and the Holocaust: Reflections on Memory and Witness Testimony.« Holocaust Studies 16 (2010): 112-134.

[Info] Baldwin, Annabelle. »'And What Happened Next?': Emotions and Sexual Violence in Holocaust Interviews.« Oral History Australia Journal No. 41 (2019): 32-42.

[Info] Böhmer, Martina. »Erfahrungen sexualisierter Gewalt in der Lebensgeschichte alter Frauen. Ansätze für eine frauenorientierte Altenarbeit.« Sozial Extra 36 (2012): 29-31.

[Info] Böwing, Georgia, et al. »Vergewaltigungen am Ende des II. Weltkriegs. Eine Kasuistik zur PTSD mit verzögertem Beginn und depressiver Komorbidität bei Trauma-Reaktivierung nach diagnostischer Koloskopie.« Trauma & Gewalt 6 (2012): 150-155.

[Info] Eichhorn, Svenja. Posttraumatische Belastung deutscher Frauen nach sexualisierter Kriegsgewalt am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Diplomarbeit, Universität Greifswald, 2009.

[Info] Eichhorn, Svenja, et al. Das Geheimnis unserer Großmütter. Eine empirische Studie über sexualisierte Kriegsgewalt um 1945. Gießen 2011.

[Info] Eichhorn, Svenja, et al. »Bewältigungsstrategien und wahrgenommene soziale Unterstützung bei deutschen Langzeitüberlebenden der Vergewaltigungen am Ende des II. Weltkriegs.« Psychiatrische Praxis 39 (2012): 169-173.

[Info] Eichhorn, S., et al. »Readiness to reconcile and post-traumatic distress in German survivors of wartime rapes in 1945.« International Psychogeriatrics (January 2015).

[Info] Kuwert, Philipp, et al. »Sexualisierte Gewalt im II. Weltkrieg. Resonanz auf eine Studienankündigung als Kaleidoskop deutscher Ansätze zur Erinnerungskultur.« Trauma & Gewalt 4 (2010): 68-73.

[Info] Kuwert, Philipp, et al. »Long-Term Effects of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Compared with Non-Sexual War Trauma in Female World War II Survivors: A Matched Pairs Study.« Archives of Sexual Behavior (March 2014).

[Info] Nandi, C. »Kriegstraumata und PTBS bei deutschen Kriegsüberlebenden.« Nervenarzt (May 2013).

[Info] Schwartz, Agatha. »Wartime Rapes, Trauma, Gender and Nation in A Woman in Berlin19th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. New York 2014.

[Info] Schwartz, Agatha. »Wartime Rapes, Trauma and Haunting: Gabi Köpp’s Warum war ich bloß ein Mädchen, Leonie Biallas’ “Komm, Frau, raboti.” Ich war Kriegsbeute and Renate Meinhof’s Das Tagebuch der Maria MeinhofAnnual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in German. Calgary 2016.

[Info] Schwartz, Agatha. »Identity, Memory and Healing the Trauma of Wartime Rape Through Narration: Three Examples of German Women’s Life Writing About WWII Rapes.« Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, Carleton University. Ottawa 2018.

[Info] Schwartz, Agatha. »Trauma, Resilience, and Identity Construction: Narratives of Germans Born of Wartime Rape.« Lecture held at Bishop’s University. Lennoxville 2018.

[Info] Teegen, Frauke, et al. »Traumatische Lebenserfahrungen und heutige Belastungsstörungen pflegebedürftiger alter Menschen.« Zeitschrift für Gerontopsychologie und -psychiatrie 16 (2003): 77-91.


[Site] Hungarian History

Representations: Films: Északi fény


[Site] Irish History

Representations: Literary Texts: Jennifer Johnston

[Info] Ring, Sinéad. »Trauma and the Construction of Suffering in Irish Historical Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions.« International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6 (2017): 88-103.


[Site] Italian History

Representations: Literary Texts: Elsa Morante (La Storia)


[Site] Serbian History

[Info] Kienzler, Hanna. The Differential Impact of War and Trauma on Kosovar Albanian Women Living in Post-War Kosova. Ph.D Thesis, McGill University, 2010.


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

[Site] Australian History

[Info] Featherstone, Lisa. » “Children in a Terrible State”: Understandings of Trauma and Child Sexual Assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia.« Journal of Australian Studies 42 (2018): 164-176.