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Sexual Violence

Allen, Judith A. Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women since 1880.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Backhouse, Constance. “‘Her Protests Were Unavailing’: Australian Legal Understandings of Rape, Consent and Sexuality in the ‘Roaring Twenties.’” Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 64 (January 1, 2000): 14–33.

Bailey, Victor and Sheila Blackburn. “The punishment of Incest Act 1908: A case study of law creation,” Criminal Law Review (1979): 708-718.

Barber, Ross. “The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1891 and the ‘Age of Consent’ Issue in Queensland.” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 10 (1977): 95-11.

Bavin-Mizzi, Jill. “Understandings of Justice: Australian Rape and Carnal Knowledge Cases, 1876-1924.” In Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, edited by Diane Kirkby, 19-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Bavin-Mizzi, Jill. Ravished: Sexual Violence in Victorian Australia.  Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995.

Carmody, Moira. “Uniting all women: A historical look at attitudes to rape,” in Crimes of Violence: Australian Responses to Rape and Child Sexual Assault, ed. Jan Breckenridge and Moira Carmody (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992).

Collins, Anne-Maree. “Woman or beast?: bestiality in Queensland, 1870-1949.” Hecate 17, no. 1 (1991): 36-41.

Collins, Anne‐Maree. “Testimonies of Sex: Rape in Queensland, 1880–1919.” Journal of Australian Studies 15, no. 29 (June 1, 1991): 50–63.

Conor, Liz. ‘The “Drover’s Boy” and Indigenous Women’s Unthinkable Consent’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 95-113.

Connors, Libby. “Uncovering the shameful: Sexual violence on an Australian colonial frontier,” in Legacies of Violence: Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia, ed. Robert Mason (New York: Berghan Books, 2017).

Doyle, Sue. “The Pyjama Girl.” Journal of Australian Studies 24, no. 64 (2000): 34–41.

Featherstone, Lisa and Amanda Kaladelfos. Sex Crimes in the Fifties. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2016.

Featherstone, Lisa. ‘Criminalising the Husband and the Home: Marital Rape Law Reform, 1976-1994’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 78-92.

Featherstone, Lisa, and Alexander George Winn. “Marital Rape and the Marital Rapist: The 1976 South Australian Rape Law Reforms.” Feminist Legal Studies 27, no. 1 (2018): 57-78.

Featherstone, Lisa. “‘That’s What Being a Woman Is For’: Opposition to Marital Rape Law Reform in Late Twentieth Century Australia.” Gender and History 29, no. 1 (2017): 87-103.

Featherstone, Lisa. “”Children in a Terrible State”: Understandings of Trauma and Child Sexual Assault in 1970s and 1980s Australia.” Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 2 (2018): 164-76.

Featherstone, Lisa. “Women’s Rights, Men’s Rights, Human Rights: Discourses of Rights and Rape in Marriage in 1970s and 1980s Australia.” Law and History 5, no. 2 (2018): 1-29.

Gleeson, Kate. “From Centenary to the Olympics, Gang Rape in Sydney.” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16, no. 2 (2004): 183-201.

Haskins, Victoria. “‘A better chance’? Sexual Abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board.” Aboriginal History 28 (2004): 33-58.

Haskins, Victoria. “‘Down in the Gully and Just Outside the Garden Walk’: White Women and the Sexual Abuse of Aboriginal Women on a Colonial Australian Frontier.” History Australia 10, no. 1 (2013): 11-34.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Yorick Smaal. “Sexual Violence and Male Prisons: An Australian Queer Genealogy.” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 31, no. 3 (2019): 349-64.

Kaladelfos, Andy. ‘Uncovering a Hidden Offence: Social and Legal Histories of Familial Sexual Abuse’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 63-77.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘“Call All Male Offenders By Their Right Name”: Masculinity and the Age of Consent’. Melbourne Historical Journal, Special Issue No. 1 (2009): 1-19.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. ‘The “Condemned Criminals”: Sexual Violence, Race and Manliness in Colonial Australia.’ Women’s History Review, vol. 21, issue 5 (2012): 697-714.

Kaladelfos, Amanda. “The Politics of Punishment: Rape and the Death Penalty in Colonial Australia, 1841–1901.” History Australia 9, no. 1 (2012): 155-75.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Lisa Featherstone. ‘Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials’. In Robert Mason ed. Legacies of Violence in Modern Australia. Berghahn Publishing, 2017, 217-232.

Kaladelfos, Andy, and Lisa Featherstone. ‘Sexual Assault by Teachers: Historical Legislative, Policy, and Prosecutorial Responses’. In Yorick Smaal, Andy Kaladelfos, and Mark Finnane eds. The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress. Clayton, Vic., Monash University Publishing, 2016, 20-34.

Scutt, Jocelyn (ed.) Rape Law Reform: A Collection of Conference Papers, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1980.

Serisier, Tanya. “Speaking out against Rape: Feminist (Her)Stories and Anti-Rape Politics.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 16 (2007): 84-95.

Smaal, Yorick, Andy Kaladelfos and Mark Finnane, ed. The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2016).

Smaal, Yorick. ““An Imbecility of Body as Well as Mind”: Common Law and the Sexual (in)Capacity of Boys.” Criminal Law Journal 36, no. 4 (2012): 249-51.

Smaal, Yorick. “Historical perspectives on child sexual abuse, part 1.” History Compass 11, no. 9 (2013): 702-714.

Smaal, Yorick. “Historical perspectives on child sexual abuse, part 2.” History Compass 11, no. 9 (2013): 715-726.

Smaal, Yorick. “Keeping it in the family: Prosecuting incest in colonial Queensland.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 3 (2013): 316-332.

Westera, Nina, Sarah Zydervelt, Andy Kaladelfos, and Rachel Zajac. “Sexual Assault Complainants on the Stand: A Historical Comparison of Courtroom Questioning.” Psychology, Crime & Law 23, no. 1 (2017): 15-31.

Zajac, Rachel, Nina Westera, and Andy Kaladelfos. “A Historical Comparison of Australian Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-Examining Child Sexual Abuse Complainants.” Child Abuse & Neglect 72 (2017): 236-46.

Zydervelt, Sarah, Rachel Zajac, Andy Kaladelfos and Nina Westera. “Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved Beyond the 1950s?” British Journal of Criminology 57, no. 3 (2017): 551-569.

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