Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media. She is the Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women’s freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. A prolific writer and speaker, her articles appear in Time, The Verge, The Guardian, The Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. Follow her on Twitter at @SChemaly and learn more at SorayaChemaly.com.
'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.
After all, women have a lot to be angry about.'
*Gloria Steinem*
'In this powerful essay collection, Chemaly draws on interviews,
research, and personal experience to examine why patriarchal
Western cultures continue to demand that women silence their rage…
Intelligent and keenly observed, this is a bracingly liberating
call for the right of women to own their anger and use it to
benefit a society "at risk for authoritarianism." Important,
timely, necessary reading.'
*Kirkus (starred review)*
'[A] thoughtful, in-depth exploration of female rage... An
essential and timely read... Invaluable and eye-opening.'
*Booklist (starred review)*
'Rage is a battle-cry of a book, drawing on all corners of
contemporary life, from media to education and medicine. She takes
the reader through a woman’s life, from infancy to adulthood,
highlighting the systemic ways female rage is suppressed, diverted
or minimalised. And she provides scientific evidence to back up her
ideas. If life as a modern woman is maddening,
then Rage is a sanity-restorer.'
*The Guardian*
'This explosive, vital and unapologetic book lifts the lid on a
hugely important but little-discussed aspect of gender inequality.
With skill, wit and sharp insight, Chemaly peels back layers of
cultural norms and repression to lay bare the reality of women's
rage. She joins the dots to trace the connections between misogyny,
violence and the repression of female anger. She weaves a path that
takes us from pornography to the playground, media to medicine.
This book should make you furious. It is a battle cry for
women's right to rage: teaching us that we have every right to be
angry, and demanding that the world pays attention to that
anger.'
*Laura Bates, author of Girl Up and Everyday Sexism*
'If you think Senator Warren persisted, meet Soraya Chemaly and her
latest book, Rage Becomes Her… Men should read the book and
the women in their lives must insist that they do so… Chemaly’s
book is giving voice to how women’s voices have been suppressed.
This book needs to be read.'
*New York Journal of Books*
'At this moment in history, when women's anger is at boiling point,
this text could not be more timely. Or, more needed.'
*Mashable*
'In this breathtakingly (or maybe I should say
breathgivingly…because it will literally make you feel like you can
breathe again) liberating book, Soraya Chemaly breaks down the
myriad ways that women are silenced, ignored, disrespected,
dehumanized, and generally spat upon by the patriarchy… It’s one of
the best feminist books I’ve ever read and the first I will
recommend the next time someone asks me why I’m a feminist.'
*BookRiot*
'Provocative... In Rage Becomes Her, Chemelay uses scientific
research, in-depth interviews, and personal experiences to
investigate why cultures around the world expect and even force
women to keep their anger silent and their rage hidden. But more
than that, she makes a case for why that pattern finally needs to
be broken.'
*Bustle*
'Chemaly’s collection of essays, shaped by research and personal
experience... shows us how anger is truly one of our most potent
resources for changing the world.'
*Shondaland*
'[A] provocative analysis… Calling for a "wise anger" that can
dismantle pervasive sexism and create a fundamentally democratic
society, the book makes a persuasive case that angry women can
achieve, not vengeance, but change.'
*Publishers Weekly*
'An unmissable book that helps to explain how the personal has
become deeply political’
*Emerald Street*
'Packed full of reasons why women might be so angry... She believes
it’s a force for good and for change and she offers strategies of
how to achieve this...If we don’t allow ourselves to be angry – to
explore that anger to its full potential, to admit those crimes
that made us angry – we are standing in the way of our own progress
and that of others.'
*The Pool*
'Relentless and revelatory… Chemaly deftly balances these
statistics with grim stories to illustrate them, so that the
cumulative effect of reading her book is not merely to legitimize
women’s anger but to render it astonishing that we are not even
angrier.'
*New Yorker*
'Champion[s] the feminist power of being angry'
*The Sunday Times*
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