The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition
dc.contributor.author | Hodes, Rebecca | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-26T10:56:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-26T10:56:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-04-26T09:06:01Z | |
dc.description.abstract | How do women's rights groups campaign for institutional change to reform archaic rape laws in transitional democracies? This article presents the findings from a case study of a coalition of women's rights and legal advocacy organisations in South Africa, the National Working Group on Sexual Offences, established to campaign for progressive institutional change to national laws and policies on rape. It examines the opportunities provided by the shifting political and structural arrangements of transitional democracies for promoting sustainable social change, and describes the constraints faced by civil society coalitions within these contexts. This article describes the factors that facilitate the emergence of developmental coalitions and determine or impede their success. It concludes with a description of the substantive achievements and successes of the coalition. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Hodes, R. (2011). <i>The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19217 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Hodes, Rebecca <i>The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19217 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Hodes, R. (2011). The Making of South Africa’s Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women’s Rights Coalition. CSSR Working Paper No, 298. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Hodes, Rebecca AB - How do women's rights groups campaign for institutional change to reform archaic rape laws in transitional democracies? This article presents the findings from a case study of a coalition of women's rights and legal advocacy organisations in South Africa, the National Working Group on Sexual Offences, established to campaign for progressive institutional change to national laws and policies on rape. It examines the opportunities provided by the shifting political and structural arrangements of transitional democracies for promoting sustainable social change, and describes the constraints faced by civil society coalitions within these contexts. This article describes the factors that facilitate the emergence of developmental coalitions and determine or impede their success. It concludes with a description of the substantive achievements and successes of the coalition. DA - 2011 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2011 T1 - The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition TI - The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19217 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19217 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Hodes R. The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition. 2011 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19217 | en_ZA |
dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.title | The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition | en_ZA |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |