Author: Lisa Featherstone, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland - Academia.edu, GoogleScholar, ORCID, Wikipedia

Abstract: »Across history, attitudes toward sexual violence varied considerably, changing over time and space. How a jurisdiction defines and criminalizes sexual assault is dependent on cultural attitudes toward sex, gender, moral authority, and violence: These differ across communities. Sexual violence incorporates a wide range of acts and experiences, and these are understood within the specific culture. One act might be interpreted very differently over time: It might be codified as a sexual crime, it might be viewed as neither harmful nor violent, or it could be overlooked or accepted entirely. Sexual violence is thus never understood as static but needs to be considered as part of the broader landscape, embedded with social, legal, medical, and cultural norms and views of what it means to be sexually assaulted and/or to commit a sexual offense.« (Source: Oxford Academic)

Contents:

	1. Sexual Violence: A Short History
	2. Property and Rape
	3. Consent and Force
	4. Vulnerable Communities: Enslaved and Colonial Subjects
	5. Class and Sexual Violence
	6. Sexual Identities
	7. Conflict Zones
	8. Sexual Violence against Children
	9. Agency and Voice
	10. Gaps and Silences in Historicizing Sexual Violence
	11. Sexual Abuse in Global History
	12. Further Reading
	Notes

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