The Furies Women Vengeance And Justice Elizabeth Flock by Elizabeth Flock 9780063048881, 0063048884 instant download after payment.

Renowned journalist & author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even imagine: the role & necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women.

In The Furies, Elizabeth Flock examines how 3 real-life women have used violence to fight back, & how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media & pop culture. These 3 immersive narratives follow Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, who killed a man she said raped her but was denied the protection of the Stand-Your-Ground law; Angoori Dahariya, leader of a gang in Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to avenging victims of domestic abuse; & Cicek Mustafa Zibo, a fighter in a thousands-strong all-female militia that battled ISIS in Syria. Each woman chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, & freedom when the institutions meant to protect them—government, police, courts—utterly failed to do so. Each woman has been criticized for their actions by those who believe that violence is never the answer.

Through Flock’s propulsive prose & remarkable research on the ground—embedded with families, communities, & organizations in America, India, & Syria—The Furies examines, with exquisite nuance, whether the fight for women’s safety is fully possible without force. Do these women’s acts of vengeance help or hurt them, & ultimately, all women? Did they create lasting change in entrenched misogynistic & paternalistic systems? And ultimately, what would societies in which women have real power look like?

Across mythologies & throughout history, the stories of women’s lives frequently end with their bodies as sites of violence. But there are also celebrated tales of women, real & fictional, who have fought back. The novelistic accounts of these 3 women provoke questions about how to achieve true gender equality, & offer profound insights..