Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: May 1, 2026 - Last updated: May 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Organizers: Orian Zakai and Maayan Eitan

Title: Rape Culture, Rape and Culture

Subtitle: Literary Perspectives

Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 19-20, 2020) (Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic) - Online Program

Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date: March 20-21, 2020

Language: English

Keywords: Society: Rape Culture



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Maayan Eitan: -

Orian Zakai, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, George Washington University - Academia.edu

Program:
  Friday, March 20, 2020
Sheraton - Pullman
  It’s doubtful… it isn’t even logical, it can’t be proved, and it’s crazy – suspicion and insinuations in Amos Oz’s literature
Reut Ben-Yaakov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  The Female Body in Seduction and Rape in Late Imperial China
Yujie Pu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Rape and Silence: Feminism as Writing, Communitarianism, and Mutual Constitution in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Jerrine Tan, Mount Holyoke College
  Space, Trauma and Recovery in Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss
Maayan Eitan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
 
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Sheraton - Pullman
  Sexual Violence in and Beyond War in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Jennifer Rickel, University of Montevallo
  Rape Culture and the Specters of Colonialism: Abjection and the Gendered Nation in Puerto Rican Literature
María Glikin, University of Pennsylvania
  To Carry Pain, To Health Through Ceremony: Genocide and Sexual Violence in Canadian Métis and Australian Aboriginal Literature
Michaela Moura-Kocoglu, Florida International University
  Disability and Gender-Based Violence in Israeli War Literature
Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University
  Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Sapphire, Yanagihara, and Boyne
Robin Field, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
 
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Sheraton - Pullman
  Heroines and Martyrs: Rape culture in the ancient Greco-Roman world
Kathryn Chew, California State University, Long Beach
  ‘Pulcra Erat’: Arnulf of Orleans Reads Rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Daniel Armenti, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Augustine’s Chastity, Lucretia’s Shame: A Critique of Consent
Gal Katz, Columbia University

Wikipedia: Sex and the law: Rape / Rape culture