Colonizing Consent
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Colonizing Consent

Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape

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eBook - PDF

Colonizing Consent

Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: Writing the History of Rape
  11. 1 Custom and Consent in Xhosaland
  12. 2 Sex and Spiritual Power
  13. 3 Liberalism and the Colonial Law of Sexual Violence
  14. 4 Rape and Racial Boundaries
  15. 5 Navigating the Politics of Consent
  16. Conclusion: Rape and the Postcolony
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index