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  • The Power of Women's Anger
  • Written by: Soraya Chemaly
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  • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (91 ratings)

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“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

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WOW! Incredible to get the gender gap conversation started

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I was aware of the gender gap issues, but this book brings an all round view of the massive gender gap issues that continue he needed to be discussed in schools, politics and homes. A definite must read!

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Be Empowered in Your Anger!

This was such a lovely book. The information it unpacked about anger politics in personal, professional, and political spaces was eye-opening. Chemaly addresses big issues in an approachable way making this book accessible in so many ways. Her reading of her work is also wonderful, the performance is clear and exciting. I cannot say enough good words about this book. It is a must-read.

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Everyone should read this

When I was a young woman, I said I believed in equality. However, I struggled with two things: the first was being in Protestant/evangelical Christianity and the second was unconsciously buying into the lie that "masculine" (whatever that is) was superior. I wanted to be perfect, which to me meant simultaneously allowing someone else (a man) to make decisions for me, a la Christian teachings, but also being strong and independent myself--like a man.

Now that I'm in my 40s, I realize that this was a fool's errand. Nothing I could have done would have made me into society's view of a perfect woman, because my own pesky nature wouldn't allow it. For years, I turned my rage inward, and what I got to show for it was burnout, a divorce, and breast cancer.

Now I'm learning to be myself, while reaffirming all the things I'd been too afraid to admit were true along the way. If you like facts (like I used to think "the proper man" or "logical, emotionless woman" should), then you'll love this book. It's jam-packed with all the research, case studies, and anecdotes you could want, proving that women are indeed still treated as second-class citizens and held to different standards than men.

I hope it makes you furious.

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must listen!

all young women should listen or read this book its shared alot of light on situations and circumstances that one wouldn't have noticed to begin with if not for this very well written piece on female rights and equal gender rights.

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Must read

This was so good I bought a paper copy, which I’m highlighting. Fantastic, empowering, and insightful.

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FANTASTIC! AMAZING! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Every person in the world should listen to this book! I’ve never felt more validated in my life! This isn’t just a book about anger, it is a book about the challenges women face and our right to feel like we deserve more! I would give it 100 stars if I could!

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Fantastic

If you are a woman you should read this but if you are a man even more so. This book will enlighten you why women become “angry” and irrational. Or are we? This will bring to light all that a privileged men never think of but we as women have to put up with on regular basis. Excellent read.

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So hard to listen to these truths!

Thank you for bringing so many things to my attention. this book made me feel anger with new understanding. I always knew answer was not bad, just an emotion... what I didn't realize consciously was the many fears and injustices I live with.
I knew... deep down.... but now I really know, and I see it in others in a new more compassionate way.
this book made me feel sick and motivated. angry and justified. normal and sad. wow! wow! wow!
thank you for doing this. ♥️

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Required Reading

You should read this, your mother should read this, your father, brothers, and husbands.
If you want to know why you feel the way you do as a woman, read this. If the men in your life want to know why you feel that way you do as a woman, read this.
Read this book.

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Men & Women - all People, this is a Must-Read

Diverse reading choices can illuminate fresh perspectives. Recently, I delved into "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger" by Soraya Chemaly—an extraordinary book that speaks to all. As a father to an incredible daughter, a supportive spouse, and surrounded by influential women in my life, this book offered me a glimpse into the female experience in our society.

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