Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: December 1, 2025 - Last updated: December 1, 2025

TITLE INFORMATION

Editors: Ruth Beecher and Stephanie Wright

Title: Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence

Subtitle: Global perspectives

Place: London

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2023

Pages: 150pp.

Series: Women's History Review 32.7 (Special Issue)

pISSN: 0961-2025 - Find a Library: WorldCat | eISSN: 1747-583X - Find a Library: WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 20th Century, 21st Century | Types: Sexual Assault



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Editors:
- Ruth Beecher, School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of LondonORCID

- Stephanie Wright, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University - ORCID

Contents:
  Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world
Ruth Beecher & Stephanie Wright (p. 927)
  ‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain
Stephanie Wright (p. 939)
  Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–2013
Joanna Bourke (p. 960)
  Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–2012
Nick Basannavar (p. 977)
  ‘They were their boyfriends’: the construction of the image of the perpetrator in cases of sexual assault in the community of Manta during the Peruvian internal armed conflict
Camila Sastre & Ben McCafferty (p. 996)
  ‘A very sensitive Rwandan woman’: sexual violence, history, and gendered narratives in the trial of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, 2001-2011
Rhian Elinor Keyse (p. 1015)
  The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts
Lesley McMillan & Deborah White (p. 1040)
  Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher
Ruth Beecher (p. 1059)
  The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Bob Pierik & Padma Anagol (p. 1072)

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