Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola is the eagerly ­anticipated follow up to the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award winner Rape: A South African Nightmare. Like the previous book on which it builds, Female Fear Factory fuses intellectual rigour and extensive research. It is an insightful and sobering account of global patriarchal violence but also offers a hopeful vision through the eyes of an unapologetic feminist.