ISBN:
1-108-47280-X
,
978-1-108-47280-7
,
978-1-108-65928-4 /eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 360 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 141
DDC:
364.1532096875
Keywords:
Südafrika Ethnie, Afrika
;
Frau
;
Frauenrecht
;
Xhosa
;
Gewalt, sexuelle
;
Sexualität
;
Recht
;
Strafrecht
;
Kolonialgeschichte
Abstract:
Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: writing the history of rape; 1. Custom and consent in Xhosaland; 2. Sex and spiritual power; 3. Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence; 4. Rape and racial boundaries; 5. Navigating the politics of consent; Conclusion: rape and the postcolony; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311 - 337
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