Gqola is no stranger to the literary scene as she's written three other works. Reflecting Rogue (Inside the mind of a feminist) is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. Her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies on three continents.'Reflecting Rogue' is the much-anticipated collection of autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and SA culture by Prof Gqola. She has written op-eds, features and columns for New Frame, City Press, Mail and Guardian, Drum (UK), Chimurenga, Wordsetc, The Africa Report and BBC Focus on Africa magazine. She sits on various academic journal boards, including African Identities, Feminist Africa, English Academy Review and Women's Studies International.

Her research and teaching fields include postcolonial theory, feminist theory and literature, Black Consciousness literature, gender discourse in post-apartheid South Africa and slave memory in the African world. Gqola holds Master's degrees from the Universities of Cape Town (RSA) and University of Warwick (UK) and a DPhil in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Munich (Germany). She is author What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2010), A renegade called Simphiwe (2013) Rape: A South African Nightmare (2015), which won the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, and Reflecting Rogue: Inside the mind of a feminist (2017). Pumla Dineo Gqola is a feminist author and Research Professor at the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. 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.įemale Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy's Cultures of Violence 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. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age.ĭrawing 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.

Yet, it does use nationalism very productively.Īn empty street at night. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. Female Fear Factory is a sobering account of patriarchal violence in the world.

Reflecting Rogue by Pumla Dineo Gqola