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dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, Sue*
dc.contributor.editorSweetman, Carolineen
dc.contributor.editorSelincourt, Kate deen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T10:06:58Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T10:06:58Zen
dc.date.issued1994-06-01en
dc.identifier.issn1355-2074en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09682869308520009en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/131245en
dc.descriptionIn apartheid South Africa, rape became not only acceptable but also legitimised. The law recognises rape only in limited instances and fails to take effective preventative or punitive action. So expected is the violence that schoolgirls sometimes assist rapists. Armstrong links rape to poverty, race and class, with poor black women being targeted most often. Rape is a weapon men use to maintain dominant male power relations, for example by denying girls an education. The solution must be to change social and cultural attitudes at the household and local levels, because it is the destruction of these units by apartheid that has allowed rape to become prolific. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.en
dc.format.extent5en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/rape-in-south-africa-an-invisible-part-of-apartheids-legacy-131245
dc.subjectConflict and disasters
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectRights
dc.titleRape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid's legacyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9221en
dc.identifier.journalGender & Developmenten
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countrySouth Africaen
oxfam.subject.keywordConflict
oxfam.subject.keywordDisasters
oxfam.subject.keywordProtection
oxfam.subject.keywordGender-based violence
oxfam.subject.keywordGender and Development Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordGaD
prism.issuenamePopulation and Reproductive Rightsen
prism.number2en
prism.volume2en
dc.year.issuedate1994en
dc.year.issuedate1994en
dc.year.issuedate1994en


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