Mara Keire and Zoe Waxman will be hosting a reading group on the theme of ‘Historicising Sexual Assault’
* Garthine Walker, “Everyman or Monster? The Rapist in Early Modern England, c. 1600-1750,” History Workshop Journal vol. 76, no. 1 (2013): 5-31. (available through SOLO)
* Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Rape, Genocide, and Women’s Human Rights,” Harvard Women’s Law Journal vol. 17 (1994): 5-16. (available through HeinOnline Law Journal Library and Lexis Library)
* Estelle B. Freedman, “Introduction: The Political History of Rape,” in Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 1-11. (available as an ACLS Humanities E-Book)
ALL WELCOME: undergraduates, graduates, and staff. It is not necessary to have done all of the readings.
There are also direct links to all articles here: cgis.history.ox.ac.uk/reading-group
Note: This will be an informal but academic discussion considering various approaches to the research and study of sexual violence. Participants should note that this scholarship can be forcefully articulated at times and the nature of the subject matter may be upsetting to some.