Elizabeth Thornberry

Colonizing Consent

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472807
• ISBN-10: 110847280X
• Artikelnr.: 52819422

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Thornberry is Assistant Professor of African History at The John Hopkins University. She has researched and published widely on the history of gender, sexuality, and law in South Africa. She co-edited Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (2010) and is currently writing a book on the intellectual history of customary law in South Africa. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Institute for International Education, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

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.