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After each Chapter I had to lay the book down and pause reading. Each Chapter made me angry. Not because they were bad - no, because Soraya Chemaly is right!
I recommend this book to everyone, if you regard yourself a feminist or not. It is not cliché driven, rather it explains the daily sexism women experience. And for everyone who says they have never encountered sexism in their lifes: Read. This. Book.
You have.

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book provides a wealth of information on gender equality and helpful insights on the expression (and lack thereof) of women’s anger in society. It is a call to embrace anger as a forward-thinking emotion and engage it productively towards combatting injustices against women, starting at home and working outward. As I read, I did find it to be repetitive or verbose at times, and felt that the information could be conveyed more concisely. Also, it seemed like the importance of anger to social change was a bit overstated, almost being presented as a silver bullet to gender inequality. Even so, it is a very helpful guide and paradigm shift for women not to fear anger, but to view it as an asset.

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emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A treatise on women’s anger and the power we hold and relinquish with or against it. Filled with scholarly research, touching anecdotes and stories of historically mad women, this book sheds a light on the real importance of channeling righteous rage into acts of understanding and change. I was particularly moved by the chapter on rage and pain. Living with a chronic pain disorder and bouts of debilitating depression and anxiety, I know firsthand the vicious feedback loop of symptoms and medical negligence causing anger and pain, and uncontrolled pain causing ever more distressing emotional disregulation. Thank you, Soraya, for seeing and explaining the confusing and powerful emotion that defines so many women throughout history.

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

kittoji's review against another edition

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4.5

this made me angry, which i rather think was the whole point. very lucid analysis of the social reality of women’s anger and what the motivations behind it are, broken down into digestible chunks and backed by intersectional studies.

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5.0

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