Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa
@article{Toit2014ShiftingMO, title={Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa}, author={Louise du Toit}, journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society}, year={2014}, volume={40}, pages={101 - 123} }
In this article, I identify four interpretive frames that have been or may be used to make sense of the high incidence of rape in contemporary postapartheid South Africa, namely, past perpetrator trauma, current socioeconomic exclusion, patriarchal politics, and ontological violence. This analysis aims to present each of these as a kind of story or narrative within which the phenomenon is framed, thus setting out a rough typology of rape interpretations. Each frame is then critically considered…
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