Rape: a South African nightmare

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"South Africa has a complex relationship with rape. Pumla Dineo Gqola unpacks this relationship by paying attention to patterns and trends of rape, asking what we can learn from famous cases and why South Africa is losing the battle against rape. Gqola looks at the 2006 rape trial of Jacob Zuma and what transpired in the trial itself, as well as trying to make sense of public responses to it. She interrogates feminist responses to the Anene Booysen case, amongst other high profile cases of gend…

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Full title :Rape : a South African nightmare / Pumla Dineo Gqola.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MF Books Joburg
Place of Publication:Auckland Park, South Africa
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 192 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781920601522, 192060152X
oclc:ocn921929100
LC Classification:HV6569.S7
Dewey Decimal:364.15320968

A recurring nightmare -- What's race got to do with rape? -- Ruling violence -- The female fear factory -- Making sense of responses to the Jacob Zuma rape trial -- Forked tongue on child rape -- Rape myths -- Violent masculinities and war talk.

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Case studies Crimes sexuels -- Afrique du Sud Femmes -- Crimes contre -- Afrique du S… Masculinité -- Afrique du Sud Masculinity Masculinity -- South Africa Procès (Viol) -- Afrique du Sud Rape Rape -- Case studies. -- South Africa Rape -- South Africa Sex crimes Sex crimes -- South Africa South Africa Trials Trials (Rape) Trials (Rape) -- South Africa Women -- Crimes against Women -- Crimes against -- South Africa Zuma, Jacob