![]() ![]() Gqola also speaks of motherhood and parenting in two chapters titled “Mothering While Feminist” and “Becoming My Mother”. The author also explores concepts such as racism, intersectionality and patriarchy, which she sees as crucial to understanding feminism. Chapters like “Disappearing Women” go into the conversation of what it is like to live in a country where women just disappear. The book starts with a description of how feminism began. Gqola brings in her perspectives as a professor and a gender activist and each of the 14 chapters is an essay. So, I’m shocked that it’s selling so well because it had bigger print runs than rape to start with.Ī post shared by Pumla Dineo Gqola on at 11:58am PDTĪs the title states, this book takes you on a journey into the mind of a black feminist in South Africa through a personal and an academic lens. I wrote #ReflectingRogue because everyone asked me to write a follow up to Rape, but I needed to free myself from that expectation and I needed to do that in a book with a totally different personality. So for it to mean so much to so many people, to win such a big important prize, for people to use it for work that I admire and learn from, and so much else still blows me away. I wrote #rapesanightmare because I couldn’t not. ![]() ![]() A writer needs to be read, especially when she puts out a book that scares her after the previous one’s gobsmacking success. Fourth reprint and we have another bestseller! Thank you for every single person who bought a copy. ![]()
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