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| Title: | An Ambiguous Sexual Revolution? Sexual Change and Intra-Generational Conflict in Colonial Natal |
| Authors: | Mahoney, Michael R. Parle, Julie |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
| Issue: | 50 |
| Pages: | 134-151 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Natal Great Britain |
| Subjects: | generation conflicts colonialism lawsuits sexuality Development and Technology History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Women's Issues Historical/Biographical Status of Women Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Cultural Roles |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470409464799 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines sexual change and intra-generational conflict in rural colonial Natal (South Africa). The authors argue that the colonial State helped ensure that sexual change privileged men over women, referring not only to the relationship between older men and their wives and daughters, but also to that between young, unmarried men and young, unmarried women. In late colonial Natal litigation over 'seduction' (illicit premarital intercourse) increased, because young people had many possible motives for engaging in premarital sex, while officials and elders had many motives for prosecuting it, such as the extraction of 'lobola' (bridewealth) from the young men. Moreover, conflicts between young men and young women could also turn up in seduction proceedings. However, all too often seduction was not punished at all, and despite Natal's strenuous efforts to eliminate seduction, it proved remarkably resilient. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
