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Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays
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Framed within Susan Brownmiller’s commentary on rape as a weapon of war and related sociological scholarship, this article examines Tristan Bernays’s Boudica (2017) to interrogate the implications of women who fight in wars. The play focuses on the warrior-queen Boudica, who stands out as a rare instance of female military command, leading the Iceni revolt alongside her daughters. However, this exceptional leader position does not prevent Boudica and her daughters from assault and gang rape by Roman soldiers, demonstrating that martial agency offers no immunity from gendered violence. Moreover, their dependence on male-led tribal armies reveals the structural constraints of female authority within patriarchal warrior cultures. Boudica thus complicates narratives of warrior heroism and illuminates the contradictory experiences of women in wartime.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Etik Beyan
The manuscript builds upon a discussion of the play originally presented in Florentina Gümüş’s PhD dissertation, “Rape in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre,” supervised by Prof. Dr. Yeliz Biber Vangölü.
The authors of this article confirm that this research does not require a research ethics committee approval. The authors of this article confirm that their work complies with the principles of research and publication ethics.
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü, Çağdaş Tiyatro Çalışmaları
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
10 Mayıs 2026
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Aralık 2025
Kabul Tarihi
17 Mart 2026
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2026 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 1
APA
Gümüş, F., & Biber Vangölü, Y. (2026). Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, 6(1), 14-27. https://doi.org/10.62352/ideas.1835951
AMA
1.Gümüş F, Biber Vangölü Y. Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays. IDEAS. 2026;6(1):14-27. doi:10.62352/ideas.1835951
Chicago
Gümüş, Florentina, ve Yeliz Biber Vangölü. 2026. “Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 6 (1): 14-27. https://doi.org/10.62352/ideas.1835951.
EndNote
Gümüş F, Biber Vangölü Y (01 Mayıs 2026) Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 6 1 14–27.
IEEE
[1]F. Gümüş ve Y. Biber Vangölü, “Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays”, IDEAS, c. 6, sy 1, ss. 14–27, May. 2026, doi: 10.62352/ideas.1835951.
ISNAD
Gümüş, Florentina - Biber Vangölü, Yeliz. “Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies 6/1 (01 Mayıs 2026): 14-27. https://doi.org/10.62352/ideas.1835951.
JAMA
1.Gümüş F, Biber Vangölü Y. Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays. IDEAS. 2026;6:14–27.
MLA
Gümüş, Florentina, ve Yeliz Biber Vangölü. “Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays”. IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, c. 6, sy 1, Mayıs 2026, ss. 14-27, doi:10.62352/ideas.1835951.
Vancouver
1.Florentina Gümüş, Yeliz Biber Vangölü. Wartime Rape in Boudica by Tristan Bernays. IDEAS. 01 Mayıs 2026;6(1):14-27. doi:10.62352/ideas.1835951