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Auteur(s) : Thornberry, Elizabeth
Titre(s) : Colonizing consent [Texte imprimé] : rape and governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape / Elizabeth Thornberry
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xi- 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : African studies series ; 141
Lien à la collection : African studies series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index
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, humanitarian
liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent,
and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history
of rape sheds new light not only on South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence,
but on the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe
Sujet(s) : Consentement sexuel -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province) -- Histoire
Viol -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province) -- Histoire
Viol -- Droit -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province) -- Histoire
Xhosa (peuple d'Afrique) -- Sexualité -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province) -- Histoire
Relations sexuelles -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province) -- Histoire
Morale sexuelle -- Cap-Est (Afrique du Sud ; province)
Genre ou forme : Études de cas
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108472807 (rel.). - ISBN 110847280X. - ISBN 9781108632447 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45672043d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45672043
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.