Realisation or oversight of a constitutional mandate? Corrective rape of black African lesbians in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMwambene, Lea
dc.contributor.authorWheal, Maudri
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-01T07:58:33Z
dc.date.available2016-08-01T07:58:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractCorrective rape is a form of sexual punishment by men towards lesbians in order to cure them of their sexual orientation. Black African lesbians are victims of corrective rape, particularly those in townships who are seen to challenge patriarchal gender norms. Therefore, discrimination on the basis of gender, race, sex and sexual orientation is called into play. The impact of discrimination is rendered more serious and their vulnerability increased by the fact that the victims are also seen as a threat to patriarchy and hetero-normativity which demarcate women's bodies as male property. The article focuses on how South Africa balances its constitutional mandate in relation to black African lesbians affected by corrective rape. The article argues that it is necessary to define corrective rape as a hate crime and not merely a crime of rape for victims of corrective rape to be adequately protected.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of the Social Sciences
dc.identifier.citationMwambene, L. and Wheal, M. (2015). Realisation or oversight of a constitutional mandate? Corrective rape of black African lesbians in South Africa. African Human Rights Law Journal, 15(2): 58 - 88en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-2096
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2356
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPretoria University Law Press (PULP)en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
dc.source.urihttp://ref.scielo.org/pmxk6c
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCorrective rapeen_US
dc.subjectBlack African lesbiansen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectDiscriminationen_US
dc.titleRealisation or oversight of a constitutional mandate? Corrective rape of black African lesbians in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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