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Author Thornberry, Elizabeth, author

Title Colonizing consent : rape and governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series African studies series
African studies series.
Contents Introduction: Writing the history of rape -- Custom and consent in Xhosaland -- Sex and spiritual power -- Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence -- Rape and racial boundaries -- Navigating the politics of consent -- Conclusion: Rape and the postcolony
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rape -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History
Rape -- Law and legislation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History
Sexual consent -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History
Xhosa (African people) -- Sexual behavior -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History
Rape.
Rape -- Law and legislation.
South Africa -- Eastern Cape.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108472807
110847280X