The History of Rape: A Bibliography
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Feminist Theory:
Brownmiller, Susan. Against our will: men, women and rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

Brownmiller, Susan. Contro la nostra volontà. Milan: Bompiani, 1976.
Brownmiller, Susan. Le viol. Paris: Stock, 1976.
Brownmiller, Susan. Våldtäkt. Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt, 1977.
Brownmiller, Susan. Voldtekt: myter og fakta. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1977.
Brownmiller, Susan. Gegen unseren Willen: Vergewaltigung und Männerherrschaft. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1978.
Brownmiller, Susan. Contra nuestra voluntad: hombres, mujeres y violación. Barcelona: Planeta, 1981.

Cahill, Ann J. "Foucault, rape, and the construction of the feminine body." Hypatia 15 (2000): 43-63.

Cahill, Ann J. Rethinking rape. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Hartmann, Heidi I., and Ellen Ross. "Comment on "On writing the history of rape"." Signs 3 (1978): 931-935.


Philosophical Theory:
Burgess-Jackson, Keith. Rape: a philosophical investigation. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996.

Burgess-Jackson, Keith, ed. A most detestable crime: new philosophical essays on rape. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.


Religious Theory:
Thompson, Jennifer J. ""Accept this twofold consolation, you faint-hearted creatures": St. Augustine and contemporary definitions of rape." Studies in media & information literacy education 4 (2004).


Seduction Theory:
Ahbel-Rappe, Karin. ""I no longer believe": did Freud abandon the seduction theory?" Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 54 (2006): 171-199.

Blass, Rachel B., and Bennett Simon. "The value of the historical perspective to contemporary psychoanalysis: Freud's 'seduction hypothesis'." International journal of psychoanalysis 75 (1994): 677-694.

Bloch, D. "Freud retraction of his seduction theory and the Schreber case." Psychoanalytic review 76 (1989): 185-201.

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. "Neurotica: Freud and the seduction theory." October 76 (1996): 15-43.

Eissler, Kurt R. "Comments on erroneous interpretations of Freud seduction theory." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 41 (1993): 571-583.

Eissler, Kurt R. Freud and the seduction theory: a brief love affair. Madison: International Universities, 2001.

Esterson, Allen. "Jeffrey Masson and Freud's seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths." History of the human sciences 11 (1998): 1-21.

Esterson, Allen. "The mythologizing of psychoanalytic history: deception and self-deception in Freud's accounts of the seduction theory episode." History of psychiatry 12 (2001): 329-352.

Esterson, Allen. "The myth of Freud's ostracism by the medical community in 1896-1905: Jeffrey Masson's Assault on Truth." History of psychology 5 (2002): 115-134.

Forrester, John. "Rape, seduction and psychoanalysis." Rape: an historical and social enquiry. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli et al. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986: 57-83.

Frampton, Michael F. "Considerations on the role of Brentano's concept of intentionality in Freud's repudiation of the seduction theory." International review of psycho-analysis 18 (1991): 27-36.

Garcia, Emanuel E. "Freud's seduction theory." Psychoanalytic study of the child 42 (1987): 443-468.

Gleaves, David H., and Elsa Hernandez. "Recent reformulations of Freud's development and abandonment of his seduction theory: historical/scientific clarification or a continued assault on truth?" History of psychology 2 (1999): 324-354.

Good, Michael I. "Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud, and the fate of the seduction theory." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 43 (1995): 1137-1167.

Holland, Norman N. "Massonic wrongs." American imago 46 (1989): 329-352.

Hult, Jose. "The re-emergence of memory recovery: return of seduction theory and birth of survivorship." History of the human sciences 18 (2005): 127-142.

Israëls, Han, and Morton Schatzman. "The seduction theory." History of psychiatry 4 (1993): 23-59.

Krüll, Marianne. Freud und sein Vater: die Entstehung der Psychoanalyse und Freuds ungelöste Vaterbindung. Munich: Beck, 1979.

Krüll, Marianne. Padre e figlio: vita familiare di Freud. Turin: Boringhieri, 1982.
Krüll, Marianne. Sigmund, fils de Jacob: un lien non dénoué. Paris: Gallimard, 1983.
Krüll, Marianne. Freud and his father. New York: Norton, 1986.
Krüll, Marianne. ?. Tokyo: Shisaku-sha, 1987.

Kupfersmid, Joel. "The "defense" of Sigmund Freud." Psychotherapy 29 (1992): 297-309.

Lothane, Zvi. "Freud's alleged repudiation of the seduction theory revisited: facts and fallacies." Psychoanalytic review 88 (2001): 673-723.

Makari, George J. "The seductions of history: sexual trauma in Freud's theory and historiography." International journal of psychoanalysis 79 (1998): 857-869.

Masson Jeffrey M. The assault on truth: Freud's suppression of the seduction theory. London: Faber & Faber, 1984.

Masson, Jeffrey M. Angrebet på sandheden: hvorfor svigtede Freud sin forførelsesteori. Copenhagen: Fremad, 1984.
Masson, Jeffrey M. Assalto alla verita: la rinuncia di Freud alla teoria della seduzione. Milan: Mondadori, 1984.
Masson, Jeffrey M. Sveket mot sanningen: hur Freud kom att överge sin förförelseteori. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1984.
Masson, Jeffrey M. Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan? Oder: was Freud nicht wahrhaben wollte. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1984.

Masters, Ardyce. "Freud, seduction and his father." Journal of psychohistory 15 (1988): 501-509.

McCullough, Maurice L. "Freud's seduction theory and its rehabilitation: a saga of one mistake after another." Review of general psychology 5 (2001): 3-22.

McOmber, James B. "Silencing the patient: Freud, sexual abuse, and "The Etiology of Hysteria"." Quarterly journal of speech 82 (1996): 343-363.

Murphy, Sara. "Freud, Sigmund/Freudian theory." Encyclopedia of rape. Edited by Merril D. Smith. Westport: Greenwood, 2004: 82-83.

Paul, Robert A. "Freud and the seduction theory: a critical examination of Masson's The Assault on Truth." Journal of psychoanalytic anthropology 8 (1985): 161-187.

Powell, Russell A., and Douglas P. Boer. "Did Freud mislead patients to confabulate memories of abuse?" Psychological reports 74 (1994): 1283-1298.

Powell, Russell A., and Douglas P. Boer. "Did Freud misinterpret reported memories of sexual abuse as fantasies?" Psychological reports 77 (1995): 563-570.

Powell, Russell A., and Douglas P. Boer. "Did Freud mislead patients to confabulate memories of abuse?: a reply to Gleaves and Hernandez (1999)." Psychological reports 95 (2004): 863-877.

Rosenman, Stanley. "Guardians, ferrets and defilers of the treasure: the Masson-Freudians controversy." Journal of psychohistory 16 (1989): 297-321.

Schimek, Jean O. "Fact and fantasy in the seduction theory: a historical review." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 35 (1987): 937-965.

Schusdek, Alexander. "Freud's "seduction theory": a reconstruction." Journal of the history of behavioral sciences 2 (1966): 159-166.

Triplett, Hall. "The misnomer of Freud's "seduction theory"." Journal of the history of ideas 65 (2004): 647-665.

Westerlund, Elaine. "Freud on sexual trauma: an historical review of seduction and betrayal." Psychology of women quarterly 10 (1996): 297-309.


Social Historical Theory:
Porter, Roy. "Rape: does it have a historical meaning?" Rape: an historical and social enquiry. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli et al. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986: 216-236.

Shorter, Edward. "On writing the history of rape." Signs 3 (1977): 471-482.


Sociobiological Theory:
Collins, Sophia. Redrawing rape: boundary work in Thornhill and Palmer's "A Natural History of Rape". M.Sc. Thesis, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, 2000.

Coyne, Jerry A. "Of vice and men: a case study in evolutionary psychology." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 171-189.

Drea, Christine M., and Kim Wallen. "Female sexuality and the myth of male control." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 29-59.

Eagly, Alice H., and Wendy Wood. "The origins of sex differences in human behavior: evolved dispositions versus social roles." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 265-303.

Gowaty, Patricia A. "Power asymmetries between the sexes, mate preferences, and components of fitness." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 61-85.

Helmreich, Stefan, and Heather Paxson. "Sex on the brain: A Natural History of Rape and the dubious doctrines of evolutionary psychology." Why America's top pundits are wrong: anthropologists talk back. Edited by Catherine Besteman et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005: 180-205.

Kimmel, Michael. "An unnatural history of rape." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 221-233.

Koss, Mary P. "Evolutionary models of why men rape: acknowledging the complexities." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 191-205.

Lloyd, Elisabeth A. "Violence against science: rape and evolution." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 235-261.

Mackey, Wade C. "The evolutionary value of the man (to) child affiliative bond: closer to obligate than to facultative." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 305-336.

Martin, Emily. "What is "rape?": toward a historical, ethnographic approach." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 363-381.

Palmer, Craig T., and Randy Thornhill. "A posse of good citizens brings outlaw evolutionists to justice: a response to Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl Brown Travis. (2003). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press." Evolutionary psychology 1 (2003): 10-27.

Palmer, Craig T., and Randy Thornhill. "Straw men and fairy tales: evaluating reactions to - A natural history of rape." Journal of sex research 40 (2003): 249-255.

Rosser, Sue V. "Coming full circle: refuting biological determinism." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 413-423.

Sanday, Peggy R. "Rape-free versus rape-prone: how culture makes a difference." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 337-361.

Shields, Stephanie A., and Pamela Steinke. "Does self-report make sense as an investigative method in evolutionary psychology?" Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 87-103.

Sunday, Suzanne R., and Ethel Tobach, eds. Violence against women: a critique of the sociobiology of rape. New York: Gordian Press, 1985.

Thornhill, Randy. "The biology of human rape." Jurimetrics 39 (1999): 137-147.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "The evolutionary biology of rape." Next sex: sex in the age of its procreative superfluosness. Edited by Gerfried Stocker et al. Vienna: Springer, 2000: 118-134.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. A natural history of rape: biological bases of sexual coercion. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. Una historia natural de la violacion: los fundamentos biológicos de la coerción sexual. México: Oceano De Mexico, 2007.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "Serial rape: an evolutionary perspective." Serial offenders: current thought, recent findings. Edited by Louis B. Schlesinger. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2000: 51-65.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "What A Natural History of Rape really says." Independent (February 21, 2000): 5.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "What does "A Natural History of Rape" really say." Albuquerque tribune. (March 2, 2000): C1-2.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "Why men rape." Sciences 40 (2000): 30-36.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "Just why do men rape: authors' reply." Sciences 40 (2000): 6 and 46-47.

Thornhill, Randy, and Craig T. Palmer. "Why men rape." Rape. Edited by Mary E. Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2001.

Thornhill, Randy, and Nancy W. Thornhill. "Human rape: an evolutionary analysis." Ethology and sociobiology 4 (1983): 137-173.

Thornhill, Randy, and Nancy W. Thornhill. "Human rape: the strengths of the evolutionary perspective." Sociobiology and psychology: ideas, issues and applications. Edited by Charles B. Crawford et al. Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1987: 269-291.

Thornhill, Randy, Nancy W. Thornhill, and Gerard Dizinno. "The biology of rape." Rape: an historical and social enquiry. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli et al. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986: 102-121.

Tobach, Ethel, and Rachel Reed. "Understanding rape." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 105-138.

Travis, Cheryl B., ed. Evolution, gender, and rape. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

Travis, Cheryl B. "Talking evolution and selling difference." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 3-27.

Travis, Cheryl B. "Theory and data on rape and evolution." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 207-220.

Vickers, A. Leah, and Philip Kitcher. "Pop sociobiology reborn: the evolutionary psychology of sex and psychology." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 139-168.

Ward, Tony, and Richard Siegert. "Rape and evolutionary psychology: a critique of Thornhill and Palmer's theory." Aggression and violent behavior 7 (2002): 145-168.

Wheeler, Vega J.A. "Naturalism and feminism: conflicting explanations of rape in a wider context." Psychology, evolution & gender 3 (2001): 47-85.

White, Jacquelyn W., and Lori A. Post. "Understanding rape: a metatheoretical framework." Evolution, gender, and rape. Edited by Cheryl B. Travis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003: 383-411.


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