![]() ![]() ![]() Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Cultures of Violence by Pumla Dineo Gqola is one such book: an uncompromising study that explores how patriarchal society encourages violence against women and sexual minorities. Sometimes a non-fiction book comes along that dissects and evaluates a subject so deeply that it becomes not just a book to read once and put down but a major point of reference. In June this year, a young Egyptian female student was murdered outside her university in broad daylight, by an unwanted suitor. In the same month, data collected from Nigeria’s government showed a 149% increase in gender-based violence. Review by Gail Collins.ĭuring the first week of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, the police received a shocking 87,000 gender-based violence calls. ![]() In Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Cultures of Violence, Pumela Dineo Gqola examines the complexity of living in a patriarchal culture as a woman, using the factory as a metaphor to argue her point that the fear women come to accept as a normal part of their lives, is fundamentally manufactured from what they are told and how they are expected to behave. ![]()
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