Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223).
Contents:
Introduction: the genesis of an idea -- 1. Manufacturing female fear -- 2. Fear, fluency and control -- 3. Dangerous fictions -- 4. Mythologising misogyny -- 5. The false promise of safety -- 6. Femicidal intimacy -- 7. Bodies of evidence -- 8. Foreign familiars -- 9. Fearing feminists -- 10. Safety, nationalism and covid-19 -- Departures: refusing the prison of fear - a diary.
Summary:
"Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively. An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age. Drawing on examples from around the world - from Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe, Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths, and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects, like driving bans, street harassment, and coercive professors, are the product of the ever-turning machinery of the female fear factory, and its use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment. Female Fear Factory is a sobering account of patriarchal violence in the world, and a hopeful vision for the work of unapologetic feminist imaginative strategies across the globe."
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