Rage Becomes Her

A book urging women to reconsider their relationship with anger, exploring how women are encouraged from childhood to sublimate it; how it mutates into other feelings and physical symptoms; and how if brought to light it is the sharpest weapon against female oppression.

A conversation-shifting book urging 21st-century women to understand their anger, embrace its power, and use it as a tool for positive change '' How many women cry when angry because we''ve held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly''s Rage Becomes Her will be good for women. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.'' GLORIA STEINEM Women are angry, and it isn''t hard to figure out why. We are underpaid , overworked , thwarted and diminished . The assertive among us are labelled bitches, while the expressive among us are considered shrill. We are told to stand down when we have an opinion and to calm down when we are fired up. And when we somehow manage to put one high heel-battered foot in front of the other despite all of this, we''re asked if it would kill us to smile. We are mad as hell, and that''s completely okay. Because contrary to the endless barrage of self-help rhetoric about anger management and letting go, the reality is that our rage is the most important resource we have as women , a force for creation rather than destruction, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. Anger is not what gets in our way, it is our way . All we need to do is own it. This is a pitch perfect, engaging, and accessible credo written by one of today’s most influential feminists. Analysing female anger as it relates to topics like self-worth , objectification , pain , care , fear , silence , and denial , Soraya illuminates how and why we repress our anger, revealing the harm that this causes, and helping us recognise the liberating power of owning our anger and marshalling it as a vital tool for positive change. Just as Quiet brought about a new embrace of introversion, Rage Becomes Her will bring about an embrace of feminine anger that will leave women feeling liberated , inspired and connected to an entire universe of women who are no longer interested in making nice. ...

#39;Champion[s] the feminist power of being angry'

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Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. As the former executive director of The Representation Project and director and cofounder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to expanding women’s civic and political participation. As a cultural critic and leading feminist thinker, she writes and speaks about gender, free speech, sexualized violence, technology and media, and the politics of supremacy. Ms. Chemaly has also spearheaded several successful global campaigns challenging corporations to address online hate and harassment, restrictive content moderation and censorship, and institutional biases. She is the author of Rage Becomes Her, The Resilience Myth, and All We Want Is Everything. A prolific writer and speaker, her articles appear in Time, The Verge, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Follow her on her Substack, Unmanned, and on Instagram at @RageBecomesHer, and learn more at SorayaChemaly.com.