Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Television:

Representations: Television:
21ST-CENTURY TELEVISION

A m e r i c a n   T e l e v i s i o n

[Site] Canadian Television

TV Series: Degrassi


[Site] Chilean Television

TV Shows: Mentiras Verdaderas

I. Author Index

[Info] Hiner, Hillary, et al. »Women, torture, & spectacle on Chilean television.« Popular Communication 16 (2018): 106-118.

II. Speaker Index

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[Site] U.S. Television

1. TV Series: American Crime, American Horror Story, Bag of Bones, Battlestar Galactica, Big Little Lies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Closer, Criminal Minds, Dawson's Creek, Dead Like Me, Dietland Eureka, Game of Thrones, Gossip Girl, Girls, The Handmaid's Tale, Hex, Humans, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Life Unexpected, Mad Men, The Morning Show, The O.C., One Tree Hill, The Orville, Outlander, Oz, The Red Tent, Riverdale, Sharp Objects, The Shield, Spartacus, Supernatural, True Blood, True Detective, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars, The Walking Dead, The Wire, You

2. Netflix Series: Bridgerton, Echoes, Jessica Jones, 13 Reasons Why, Unbelievable

I. Author Index

[Info] Beliveau, Ralph, et al. »Introduction: The #MeToo Lens and the Television Industry.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 1-8.

[Info] Beliveau, Ralph, et al., eds. #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Jefferson 2025.

[Info] Eddy, Zoë A. »“Some were prostitutes … others were ordinary women”: Memories, Mediation, and Sexual Violence in the True Crime Genre.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 9-25.

[Info] Jenkins, Joy, et al. »“A gut punch to the soul”: Fan Responses to Rape Depictions in Popular TV Shows.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 153-172.

[Info] Lehman, Katherine J. »From “Good Girls” to Vigilantes: Feminist Representation and Production in #MeToo Television.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 123-134.

[Info] Murphy, Katherine J. »Analyzing Women's Representation in the Health Care Field on American Television from 1965-2019.« Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research No. 12 (2021): 68-97.

[Info] Patrick, Stephanie, et al., eds. The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Cham 2022.

[Info] Reynolds, Rachel R., et al. »Television Production, #MeToo, and Gendered Challenges in Representing Rape.« #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture. Edited by Ralph Beliveau et al. Jefferson 2025: 135-152.

[Info] Shavit, Yael, et al. »Television Newsmagazine Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse: 1990-2005.« Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism 4 (2014).

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Sood, Asmita, et al. »Television Representations of Sexual Violence.« Talking Research (January 15, 2021).



A s i a n   T e l e v i s i o n

[Site] Israeli Television

I. Author Index

[Info] Ben-Atara, Ella, et al. »Taboo and dynamic framing in the media coverage of gang rape: The Ayia Napa case.« Sociological Spectrum (December 27, 2023).

II. Speaker Index

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[Site] Indian Television

TV Shows: Satyamev Jayate



E u r o p e a n   T e l e v i s i o n

[Site] General

TV Series: Sex Traffic


[Site] English Television

TV Series: Banished, Downton Abbey, The Forsyte Saga, Harlots, Poldark

I. Author Index

[Info] Boyle, Karen. »Television and/as testimony in the Jimmy Savile case.« Critical Studies in Television 13 (2018): 387-404.

[Info] Kenny, Colum. »Significant Television: Journalism, Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in Ireland.« Irish Communications Review 11 (2009): 63-76.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Boyle, Karen. »Television and/as Testimony: (Child) Sexual Abuse and Media Constructions of Believability.« 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto 2018.

[Info] Wheatley, Helen. »Haunted Television: Morality, Trauma, and the Spectre in the Archive.« 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto 2018.

[Info] Wood, Helen. »Three Working-Class Girls, Television, and the 'Voicing' of Sexual Abuse.« 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Toronto 2018.


[Site] French Television

TV Series: Borgia


[Site] German Television

TV Series: Das Boot, Polizeiruf 110


[Site] Irish Television

TV Series: The Fall

I. Author Index

[Info] Boyle, Karen. »Television and/as testimony in the Jimmy Savile case.« Critical Studies in Television 13 (2018): 387-404.

[Info] Kenny, Colum. »Significant Television: Journalism, Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in Ireland.« Irish Communications Review 11 (2009): 63-76.

II. Speaker Index

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[Site] Russian Television

I. Author Index

[Info] Riabov, Oleg, et al. »The "Rape of Europe": 2016 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne in hegemonic discourse of Russian media.« Communist and Post-Communist Studies 52 (2019): 145-154.

II. Speaker Index

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O c e a n i a n   T e l e v i s i o n

[Site] Australian Television

TV Series: A Place to Call Home

I. Author Index

[Info] Waterhouse-Watson, Deb. »Framing the Victim: Sexual Assault and Australian Footballers on Television.« Australian Feminist Studies 27 (2012): 55-70.

[Info] Waterhouse-Watson, Deb. Athletes, Sexual Assault, and "Trials by Media": Narrative Immunity. New York 2013.

II. Speaker Index

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[Site] New Zealand Television

TV Series: Top of the Lake