RAGE BECOMES HER

A knockout punch of a book on women’s anger.

Through a combination of personal reflection, research, and stories from her travels as an international activist and speaker, Soraya Chemaly urges women to reconsider their relationship with this powerful emotion: how we are encouraged from childhood to sublimate it; how it mutates into other feelings and physical symptoms (jaw clenching, anxiety, depression, eating disorders); and how if honored and brought to light, it is the sharpest weapon against women’s personal and political oppression.

Soraya Chemaly is one of the most influential feminists working today, with 45,000 Twitter followers, dozens of awards and fellowships for her activism, friends at the highest echelons of media, a knack for writing viral opinion columns, and a speaking career that includes a recent TED talk and a brisk annual tour of tech firms, government panels, universities, and schools. She writes "Rage Becomes Her" with the same expertise and energy that have made her instrumental in overturning sexist policies on Facebook and Twitter and in government, currently as Director of the Women’s Media Center.

Soraya writes with Jill Filipovic’s force, Rebecca Solnit’s lyricism, and Roxane Gay’s bite. For many women, reading her work is a revelation. It feels like one of those new friendships that renders you more recognizable to yourself, more voltaic and present in the world.