Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive.
Despite contemporary concerns about sexual violence in South Africa, the longer history of violence against women has been insufficiently explored. This article examines the apartheid-era archive on sexual violence, exploring what methodologies can be used and histories written based on its contents...
| Publicado en: | African Studies Vol. 81; no. 3/4; pp. 286 - 306 |
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Sep-Dec2022
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