Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

“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, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.” (Gloria Steinem)

A transformative audiobook urging 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.

Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.

We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would.

Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. We’ve been told for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet our anger is a vital instrument, our radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power.

We are so often told to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements in this world would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Rage Becomes Her makes the case that anger is not what gets in our way, it is our way, sparking a new understanding of one of our core emotions that will give women a liberating sense of why their anger matters and connect them to an entire universe of women no longer interested in making nice at all costs.

Following in the footsteps of classic feminist manifestos like The Feminine Mystique and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Rage Becomes Her is an eye-opening audiobook for the 21st-century woman: an engaging, accessible credo offering us the tools to re-understand our anger and harness its power to create lasting positive change.

©2018 Soraya Chemaly (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

eye opening, mind altering

This book alternates between deacribing the unhealthy and unfair supression of anger in women and the disproportionate volume of things women have to be about. there is a chapter at the end about healthy ways to express anger.

This book will change the world.

I’m so glad I’m doing therapy right now as I listen to this because it’s tied SO much to my own somatic experiences that can make me feel crazy, but are really tied to all these true realities. I love that the author uses so many statistics and facts, and can move from one statement to the next with support. It’s very educational but also flows and is engaging.
Highly recommend this book for all women. Teach your kids!

This book should be a course in school

I am usually a fiction kinda girl but this book was strongly recommended so I took a shot and read it. Truly a life affirming work of art. #lifechanging #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

if you identify as a women, this is a must-read

100% recommend. you think you know, and then you get the rest of the truth. even further eye-opening.

Powerful and Cathartic

This is a must read for every woman and AFAB too. Men, if you want to support the ladies in your life, you should also take the time to read this transformative book.