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

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Thornberry, Elizabeth (The Johns Hopkins Universit Thornberry, Thornberry Elizabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108472807
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47280-7
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: African Studies; African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; HISTORY / Africa / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Republic of South Africa, Case Law, Law & society, Criminal law: offences against the person, Offences against the person, Law and society, sociology of law, Sources of law: case law, precedent