"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: 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. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781913175153

ISBN-10: 1913175154

Language: English

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press

Year: 2022

Pages: 182

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:57 p.m.

Guerrillas and Combative Mothers is a narrative of women participating in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. Focusing on their agency, commitment, beliefs and actions, it describes how women got politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle in South Africa and exile. Siphokazi Magadla discusses the forms of military training they received, the combat activities and their transformation as women and soldiers. Magadla also talks about their participation in the South African National Defence Force-led demobilisation process and their contributions to the democratic transformation of the SANDF. By illuminating the different eras and arenas of their participation, this book shows the broadness of the armed struggle against apartheid as a historical truth and as a matter of gender equality and justice for an inclusive and more democratic future. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781003814689

ISBN-10: 1003814689

Language: English

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Year: 2023

Pages: 248

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:38 p.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: African Gender Institute

Year: 2011

Pages: 153

Cataloged: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:35 p.m.

"Written in love and fire, African Feminist Praxis is meticulous and visionary." - Dr. Pumla Dineo Gqola, SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination, Nelson Mandela University and author of Female Fear Factory So much of the story of African resistance has been told in the masculine, tracing the history of spectacle: great struggles, great speeches, the grand displays of nation building. This book adds to the literature that reverses this, exploring the flesh and breadth of contemporary African feminist politics as articulated across the African continent. It is structured around the key principles of kinship, courage, pleasure, care and memory, and draws on the African feminist academic canon, the "grey literature" of practitioner knowledge and narratives of feminists activists themselves. Through this it evidences the argument that African feminist praxis is fundamentally a politics of proposition, a mode of liberatory worldmaking. The Social Science for Social Justice series challenges the Ivory Tower of academia, providing a platform for academics, journalists, and activists of color to respond to pressing social issues. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781529610161

ISBN-10: 1529610168

Language: English

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Year: 2024

Pages: 168

Cataloged: Oct. 15, 2025, 3:25 p.m.

History never dies. It is embedded in people's memories when books are burnt and children are taught false histories, imagined by false historians from near and far - says the author in this book. This is the context in which Key Points in the History of Kenya, 1885-1990 is published. This, the 4th in the Kenya Resists Series from Vita Books, brings together presentation points from several conferences and meetings on the history of Kenya. It also includes historical records on Kenya by Saleh Mamon and Ladislav Venys. Key Points highlights many hidden facts about the history of Kenya. References are included for those who wish to explore the history further. While these books and facts are readily available in many history books, they are not easily available to all people in Kenya and in a form that meets their needs. The book therefore aims to familiarise people with the history of Kenya. It seeks to keep people's struggles, sacrifices and history alive. The author hopes that it will be a weapon in the sense that Bertolt Brecht meant when he said: 'Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon'. That is the aim of the series, Kenya Resists too. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9789914987577

ISBN-10: 9914987575

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 2022

Pages: 154

Cataloged: Sept. 24, 2025, 12:46 p.m.

A study of the Great Depression argues that Roosevelt's flawed economic policies had a profound and dangerous impact on America and that the New Deal actually prolonged the hardship rather than provided a lasting solution. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780761501657

ISBN-10: 0761501657

Language: English

Publisher: Crown Forum

Year: 2003

Pages: 336

Cataloged: Sept. 9, 2025, 12:31 p.m.

Henry Muoria (1914-1997), self-taught journalist, pamphleteer and newspaper proprietor, was one of the most influential voices in the first era of Kenyan nationalism after the Second World War. His pamphlets, a selection of which is reproduced here in both English and Gikuyu, show both his own originality of thought and the more conservative views of Jomo Kenyatta (later to become the first President of Kenya), for whom Muoria acted as unofficial press officer. While one of the contributors' chapters provides the intellectual and political context of these texts from the almost-forgotten but formative 1940s, another studies Henry Muoria's family life, especially the courage and endurance of his three wives, while a third remembers him as father. Intellectual, political and domestic life here intertwine. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9789004174047

ISBN-10: 9004174044

Language: English

Publisher: Brill

Year: 2009

Pages: 409

Cataloged: Sept. 9, 2025, 12:24 p.m.

This is a true story of a young man's adventures in Africa. He is first attracted to the continent while visiting a farm in Tunisia and has a yearning to see more. The captivating charm of Johannesburg and the nightlife of its suburb Hillbrow holds him spell bound for many months before he breaks free to explore the bush, without a guide or mentor, to find the real Africa. The realisation that Southern Rhodesia, under threat from terrorists and world opinion, may become a 'No man's land' drives him into touring the country before it deteriorates into possible civil war. He finally marries a South African girl and goes to live in a remote country village where he not only faces the pitfalls and difficulties of married life in apartheid South Africa but the overhanging threat of company politics. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9781548044015

ISBN-10: 1548044016

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2017

Pages: 334

Cataloged: Sept. 8, 2025, 12:25 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780140436785

ISBN-10: 0140436782

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Year: 1998

Pages: 264

Cataloged: Sept. 8, 2025, 12:15 p.m.