World War II historian Ray Douglas talks about the aftermath of the publication of his rape memoir and how his experience shaped his research on rape, particularly of men, in armed conflict.
Show Notes
When he was 18, Douglas was raped by a Roman Catholic priest in Dublin. In his 2016 book, he recounts his experience for the first time and discusses how little progress has been made for male victims in the three decades since he was raped.
“Men who have been raped will have to come out of the shadows….A start has to be made somewhere. This is my attempt at one.”
About Ray Douglas
On Being Raped
by Raymond M. Douglas
https://www.beacon.org/On-Being-Raped-P1189.aspx
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (2012). — One of the 15 best books published in 2012 according to The Atlantic.
Douglas, R.M. 2020. “The US Army and Male Rape during the Second World War,” Journal of Contemporary History 56(2): 243-267.
Douglas, R.M. “The Perpetrator as Victim: The Curious Afterlives of Gabrielle Russier,”
Douglas, R.M. “Forging the Perfect Victims: Anne Fontaine’s Les innocents and the Representation of Conflict-Related Violence,”
Douglas, R. M. “’ Explaining Male Rape: The ‘Feminization Thesis and its Limitations,”
Douglas, R.M. “The Rape of Men in War: What We Know and What We Don’t”
Douglas, R.M. “Neither Apathetic nor Empathetic: Investigating and Prosecuting Rape of German Civilians by U.S. Civilians in 1945,”
Douglas, R.M. “’Deserving’ or ‘Undeserving’ Victims? Prosecuting Sexual Offences by U.S. Soldiers against Italian Civilians, 1943-45,” 2024 Association of American Historians, New Orleans
