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4.41 AVERAGE
4.41 AVERAGE
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Just the pep talk women of the world need right now in our second and seemingly dystopian Trump-era presidency.
Audiobook.
Audiobook.
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
What a great book. Although I largely already agreed with Traister’s arguments, she makes them incredibly well, strongly structured, and impossible to ignore. I hope this is a book that gets assigned in high school classrooms, so that young women know their anger is righteous and young men learn not to be utter dirtbags.
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
I would recommend this book to all women, young and old, as a great reminder of the amazing women throughout history who have fought for gender equality and justice for oppressed minorities. The author explores the suppression of women's anger and shows through multiple examples how valuable anger has been in motivating women to achieve advancements in social justice and the betterment of society. She traces these advancements from the suffrage movement to the modern day me-too movement and dispels the myth that anger and femininity are not compatible.
Being mad is correct; being mad is American; being mad can be joyful and productive and connective. Don't ever let them talk you out of being mad again.
I had the pleasure of listening to this as an audio book and also went out and bought a physical copy of it before I was even done with it because I knew I was going to want to read it and highlight it and lend it out and read it again. I am an angry woman. I've always been an angry woman and I've always been told that that is wrong or too much, but I have never been able to really correct it in a way that makes me more pleasing to others. I have found my people over the years that accept me as who I am but that does not mean that they don't still look at me like I'm crazy sometimes.
As a side note, whenever I pick up books that center on women's struggles, I worry that that's not going to be intersectional. For all the good previous women's movements have done, they have left a gaping hole in matters of race and sexuality. I think this book does a fairly decent job of pointing out these discrepancies, but I would not be the correct person to say that it does it perfectly.
SO heartening and validating and inspiring. I'm so glad I had this book to read in dribs and drabs over the last three weeks as my 2018 election anxiety waxed and waned (and waxed again, gah).
I really appreciated that she took the long historical view and deliberately included Civil Rights history, LGBT history, 2nd wave feminism history, and not only gave credit to past leaders but tracked down and interviewed them where possible to comment on current events.
I really appreciated that she took the long historical view and deliberately included Civil Rights history, LGBT history, 2nd wave feminism history, and not only gave credit to past leaders but tracked down and interviewed them where possible to comment on current events.