Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** ***BEST BOOKS OF 2018 SELECTION BY*** * WASHINGTON POST * People * NPR * ESQUIRE * ELLE * WIRED * REFINERY 29 * "In a year when issues of gender and sexuality dominated the national conve rsation, no one shaped that exchange more than Rebecca Traister. Her wise a nd provocative columns helped make sense of a cultural transformation."-Nat ional Magazine Award Citation, 2018 "The most brilliant voice on feminism in this country."-Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Sin gle Ladies comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative powe r of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement. In the year 2018, it seems as if women's anger has suddenly erupted into th e public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women's March, and before the #MeToo movement, women's anger was not only political ly catalytic-but politically problematic. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment th at has enshrouded women's slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to w hen it comes from men. With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel-from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Here Traister explores women's anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is perce.

Product Info

ISBN: 1501181793

ISBN-13: 9781501181795

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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