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If you picture a divorce lawyer, what image springs to mind? Meet a senior, female divorce lawyer who’s been in the business for 35 years and has pretty much seen it all! Sharon Montgomery, Partner at Crane & Staples Solicitors, talks candidly about why she chose this as her career path and what she’s experienced along the way. During some open, honest and amusing conversations with former BBC broadcaster Antonia Brickell, she shares some eye-opening stories about how she has weathered the storm of negotiating challenging relationships over the years, why inspiring trainee solicitors ...

Drawing on examples from around the world—from Uganda, Nigeria and 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, higher education rape, sexual harassment and femicide are all premised on the construction of people, mostly women, as female, and thereafter the use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment.