Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape

ISBN-13: 9781108460316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 379 str.

Elizabeth Thornberry

Opis

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Recenzje

'… an interesting read … Thornberry has combed selected court records finely and commented thoughtfully, drawing out conflicting viewpoints advanced within and between the overarching discourses that were deployed to understand sexual violence in the colonial era. It is an important addition to the scholarship on gender and sexuality in South Africa.' Anne Kelk Mager, Social History

Spis treści

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.