Winner of the 2016 Alan Paton Award, Rape:A South African Nightmare unpacks South Africa’s various relationships to rape, connections between rape culture and the shock/disbelief syndrome that characterises public responses to rape, the female fear factory, boy rape and violent masculinities, the rape of Black lesbians, baby rape, as well as high profile rape trials like that of Jacob Zuma, Bob Hewitt, Baby Tshepang and Anene Booysen.
A recurring topic in the news, typically rearing its head during election cycles, Islamophobia has unfortunately become a major aspect of post-9/11 American politicsWhile seminal works exist on the subject generally, such as Edward Said's Orientalism, nothing has been written in the last decade for a general audience