Tag: rape

The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls July 14, 2016 Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s

By Nick Basannavar April 21, 2016 Childhood and Youth, United Kingdom 0 comments

Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.

Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus

By Kristin Collins-Breyfogle February 4, 2016 Asian Sexualities 1 comment

An 1852 rape case reveals that colonization was an uneven process.

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By notcheseditor January 19, 2016 Modern Europe 3 comments

Michelle Lynn Kahn “Are you safe?” Emails from loved ones flooded my inbox the first days of 2016. All assumed the worst-case scenario: that I was among the victims of the coordinated sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve at the Central Train Station in Cologne, Germany, where I am writing […]

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci November 17, 2015 Asian Sexualities, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela March 10, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard 2013) charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States. It is unique in focusing on the legal and political, rather than personal and experiential, dimensions of American rape culture. Centering on the […]

History of Sexuality and Academic Impact

By Gráinne O'Connell January 31, 2014 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Trigger Warning: rape and rape culture. The following blog may be a trigger to some people. Gráinne O’Connell A recent department of Law event held at the London School of Economics on October 30th, 2013 has foregrounded the reach, and ethical implications, of public engagement initiatives in the UK Higher […]