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100 1  Flock, Elizabeth|c(Journalist),|eauthor. 
245 14 The furies :|bwomen, vengeance, and justice /|cElizabeth 
       Flock. 
246 30 Women, vengeance, and justice 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHarper, an imprint of 
       HarperCollinsPublishers,|c2023 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    293 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
380    Book|2tlcgt 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293). 
505 00 |tBook 1: Brittany --|tBook 2: Angoori --|tBook 3: Cicek 
520    "Renowned journalist and author of The Furies Elizabeth 
       Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even the 
       role and necessity of female-led violence in response to 
       systems built against women. In The Furies , Elizabeth 
       Flock examines how three real-life women have used 
       violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend 
       their lives are often distorted by their depictions in 
       media and pop culture. These three 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; and 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, and 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 and remarkable research on the ground--embedded with
       families, communities, and organizations in America, India,
       and 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, and ultimately, all women? Did they create 
       lasting change in entrenched misogynistic and 
       paternalistic systems? And ultimately, what would 
       societies in which women have real power look like? Across
       mythologies and 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 and fictional, who have fought back. The novelistic 
       accounts of these three women provoke questions about how 
       to achieve true gender equality, and offer profound 
       insights in the quest for answers." --|cGoodreads. 
650  0 Violence in women. 
650  0 Women|xCrimes against. 
650  0 Gender-based violence. 
650  0 Feminism.