Rage Becomes Her
The Power of Women's Anger
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Soraya Chemaly
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Soraya Chemaly
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“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, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.” (Gloria Steinem)
A transformative audiobook urging 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would.
Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. We’ve been told for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet our anger is a vital instrument, our radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power.
We are so often told to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements in this world would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Rage Becomes Her makes the case that anger is not what gets in our way, it is our way, sparking a new understanding of one of our core emotions that will give women a liberating sense of why their anger matters and connect them to an entire universe of women no longer interested in making nice at all costs.
Following in the footsteps of classic feminist manifestos like The Feminine Mystique and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Rage Becomes Her is an eye-opening audiobook for the 21st-century woman: an engaging, accessible credo offering us the tools to re-understand our anger and harness its power to create lasting positive change.
©2018 Soraya Chemaly (P)2018 Simon & SchusterWhat listeners say about Rage Becomes Her
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- SBarnes
- 28-03-2022
I have never felt so seen
This book is incredible and I'm so grateful that it exceeded my expectations. It's refreshingly intersectional and inclusive, it's the perfect combo of factual and personalised. Honestly I have never felt so seen and understood through a book, beautifully pieced together and easy to follow when drawing conclusions. I can't wait to listen through a second time round, there's so much value in this book
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- Jodie
- 11-03-2022
Listen to this Book asap
I listen a little each day and highly recommend. If I could give Five Books to my younger self, this would be in there. i'm gonna make up for Lost Time though!
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- NL
- 27-01-2022
Research-based and generally a remarkable read
Chemaly uses extensive research to demonstrates how anger relates to different variables (eg upbringing, social norms, workplace culture), but its predominant focus is on a gender perspective. The author argues that the expectations of women as docile, timid and obedient care-givers is still deeply engrained in the collective subconscious of how a society is envisaged to operate across various domains of social practice.
Generally, it is a remarkable read, especially for those who want to understand why women’s anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions and how it relates to both public and private spheres. However, the main thrust of the argument gets, at times, lost due to an overwhelming number of citations and case studies (especially in an audiobook) which gives the story a general feel of a well-documented feminist manifesto on abuse, domestic violence, and gender politics.
Towards the end, Chemaly outlines the potential expansion of the main argument towards practical advice on how anger can be productively transformed.
“Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain. […] “If it is poison, it is also the antidote.”
But I don’t think it’s the anger itself that holds transformational value. To me, it’s understanding the deeper and less apparent conceptual framework of anger - something that Adler’s ‘individual psychology’ addresses, to an extent. Anger is, in a sense, a display of the will to power or rather, an emotion chosen (on purpose, although subconsciously) to maintain/manifest one’s assertiveness when they realize (again, often subconsciously and within nano-seconds) that no better outcome can be achieved through rational negotiation.
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- Bell
- 22-04-2019
I hope everyone has the courage to read this book
It took courage to read this book because I knew it'd bring a mirror to the many parts of my life that made dust bunnies under my bed. I hope everyone reads this book and I'm profoundly grateful to Chemaly for writing it.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-07-2019
rage the new super power
loved this review and how to of the place of anger to release and drive change.
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- Ingrid Weiss
- 13-12-2024
Anger can be well used constructively to battle injustices
A bit too long… repeat toward end of statements previously proved with studies …would shorten initial chapters
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- L. Chow
- 10-04-2022
Disappointing and narrow minded
I was very excited to finally listen to this book. The author’s narrative is great, don’t get me wrong but I’m so disappointed with the actual content of the book. I was hoping the narrative of the book is a bit more global and higher level. All the author was focusing on is the USA culture and her point of view which is limited to her upbringing in the USA. I don’t relate to most of her POV because I just wasn’t brought up in the United States. I found this very narrow minded. I couldn’t even go past half of the book. I found it dull. Very disappointed with this book.
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