Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

De: Soraya Chemaly

Narrado por: 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 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.

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!

Rage Becomes Us All

"Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth... Anger is a boundary. Anger is boundless. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is commitment. Empathy. Self-love. Social responsibility. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun."
~Soraya Chemaly

RAGE BECOMES HER, by Soraya Chemaly was as diverse and powerful in its telling as the author notes anger itself can be. At times, I felt myself feeling simultaneously validated, frustrated, and emboldened. Chemaly's thoughtful and personal anecdotes about her life (unafraid in their admissions of her own imperfections) backed by statistics and studies had me flipping from enlightened to saddened to overwhelmed to defiant and back again.

I was, however, at all times angry. A good thing for me, and all women, to be, as Chemaly reminds us. Too long we've been denied this powerful emotion. Society has been gaslighting us in ways most of us are all too familiar with and others that (to me, anyway) felt brand new.

That desire to double, triple, quadruple check my work when a man says something contrary to what I know to be the truth? That hard bite on the insides of my cheeks while I screw on a smile after being interrupted, yet again, by a male colleague? That long, long blink and slow inhale before turning to apologize for how delinquent I've been on the dishes after working yet another 70 hour work week?

It's not just me. Or you. We aren't alone in our anger. That's what this book has to say in a thousand beautiful ways that will appeal to and speak to women from multiple different races, ethnicities, cultures, histories, economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Our commonality across it all is this: Rage Becomes Us All.

Excellent!

This is a powerful book that ended up increasing my anger in some ways, but I would say that's not a bad thing. I think everyone should read this, but especially women. We too often don't realize the reality of how we are controlled/managed, the ways we are harming ourselves in not realizing or acknowledging the extent to which we suppress ourselves, and how we perpetuate the behaviors with our children and peers. You want to know where our anger comes from? Read this book!

I enjoyed listening to the author read the book. Often that is not the case, but she made it interesting.

Rage away

What a great book. Very thought provoking and a must read for today’s woman. Thank you Soraya for accepting and encouraging women who are damn mad! I am looking for more from this author.

Valuable Read for Women and Men

Book highlights many stories where anger was warranted but either misunderstood or minimized. I see myself on many of these pages and it feels good to know I’m not alone.

Every single woman should read this

Beautifully raw book, I wish I could share this depth of knowledge with every woman I know