Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Politics & government
Weblink
http://www.simonandschuster.com/ …

GOOD AND MAD

Rebecca Traister

The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad is an exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement.

2018 saw women's anger suddenly explode into the public conversation and the #MeToo movement was born. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women's slow rise to political power as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men.

With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel - from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Here Traister explores women's anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is perceived based on its owner; as well as the history of caricaturing and delegitimizing female anger; and the way women's collective fury has become transformative political fuel - as is most certainly occurring today. She deconstructs society's (and the media's) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of their resulting repercussions.

Highlighting a double standard perpetuated against women by all sexes, and its disastrous, stultifying effect, Traister's latest is timely and crucial. It offers a glimpse into the galvanizing force of women's collective anger, which, when harnessed, can change history.

Rebecca Traister is one of the most significant and respected feminist journalists writing today and her star continues to rise. Her New York Times bestseller ALL THE SINGLE LADIES was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016 and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, National Public Radio, and the Chicago Public Library. It was one of Simon & Schuster's best-reviewed book of the year. Rebecca's first book, BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY) was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize.

Available products
Book Published 2018-10-02 by Simon & Schuster
Book Published 2018-10-02 by Simon & Schuster

Comments

Good and Mad is Rebecca Traister's ode to women's ragean extensively researched history and analysis of its political power. It is a thoughtful, granular examination: Traister considers how perception (and tolerance) of women's anger shifts based on which women hold it (*cough* white women *cough*) and who they direct it toward; she points to the ways in which women are shamed for or gaslit out of their righteous emotion. And she proves, vigorously, why it's so important for women to own and harness their rage - how any successful revolution depends on it.

Timely and absorbing, Traister's fiery tome is bound to attract attention and discussion. Traister takes a deep dive into the current political climate to explore the contemporary and historical relationship women have with anger and the ramifications of expressing and suppressing feminine rage. Traister uses.startlingly obvious double standard[s] to explore how attaching negative connotations to women's anger has always been used to silence and dismiss them.

Full of [Traister's] brilliant takes on feminism, anger, politics, and more.

A compelling case for the efficacy of women's anger.

With eloquence and fervor...Good and Mad explores women's anger at both men and other women, between ideological allies and foes, while also examining the history of delegitimizing female anger. Most timely, Traister shares insight into how collective fury has become a transformative political force - as is most certainly occurring today.

To enter the splendid core of ire and intelligence coursing through Rebecca Traister's third book, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger," is to be sustained by its heat, invigorated, galvanized...a virtuosic performance, elucidating women's rage as a transformative political tool from 19th-century abolition and suffrage campaigns to summer 2018, connecting achievements of the mad women of feminism's first and second waves to the present-day tide of women's activism... Traister's gift is to contextualize and synthesize superficially disparate eras and events, social injustices and private pains. Her exploration of the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment - kicked off with her own experience of a violent Harvey Weinstein - is instantly canonical.

There is no better time to read [GOOD AND MAD]...A book that illuminates rage, advocates for rage, makes some sense of rage, and explores why women have been encouraged to repress and silence their rage for so long. It looks at the ways both men and women respond to female rage - embracing, criticizing, discounting, mocking, caricaturizing it. It looks at rage as not the end, but the means to the end. It is the thing women must recognize and accept and claw our way through in order to discover what world waits for us on the other side of that anger.

A resounding polemic against political, cultural, and personal injustices in America...With articulate vitriol backed by in-depth research, Traister validates American women's anger.... Traister has meticulously culled smart, timely, surprising quotations from women as well as men. The combined strength of these many individual voices and stories gives the book tremendous gravity.... A gripping call to action that portends greater liberty and justness for all.

Traister turns her prodigious intellect and research skills to investigating how angry women are received in our culture.

If you have come across Traister in New York Magazine (only a little of this book has appeared there, though) you'll know how smart she is, and how witty, and how both white-hot and yet measured her own anger is. But you'll have only the beginning of an appreciation of how crystalline her style is. You read her without effort, following arguments that are new to you with such ease that you believe happily that you're as smart as she is. It's as though she were teaching - she is at least exemplifying - how anger can be not just employed but enjoyed, for the energy and focus it can provide. Women haven't been much encouraged to attend to that. But Traister shows us - all of us - how to look back to find it, and then to direct it forward.

[A] rousing look at the political uses of this supposedly unfeminine emotion...written with energy and conviction...galvanizing reading.

A searing and comprehensive analysis of the history and power of women's rage, from ancient history to the current #metoo moment.

A galvanizing, timely study of righteous rage.

If there was a moment tailor-made for a new book about women and rage, it would be now. And Rebecca has written it -- .

The latest from Rebecca Traister - writer for New York magazine, contributing editor at Elle, author of All the Single Ladies and all around genius - Good and Mad is an exploration of the power of women's anger and its ability to change history. Traister's sharp yet effortless prose is a joy, even when the subject matter does, in fact, inspire you to feel even madder. Ultimately, though, this book left me feeling educated, enlightened and inspired. A must-read.

Good and Mad comes out at just the right time...the [Kavanaugh] hearing and its aftermath just proved the point Traister was making all along.

[Traister] has done her research...effectively conveys that women's anger has shaped America, and also that much of it is mischaracterized or ignored in popular accounts of history... impressively crafted...Traister excels at consistently throwing out insights that are so clean that they seem like you had them in your head in the first place...One of Traister's other greatest strengths is that she has been intentional about bringing in a range of voices - especially black women.

A feminist analysis of women's anger as a vital driver of social change throughout U.S. history and in the current political scene.

One of our country's wisest writers on gender and politics.

A deeply research treatise on female anger - its sources, its challenges, and its propulsive political power.

Chinese (Simplified): New Star Press ; Spanish: Capitan Swing Libros

An exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement... Read this.

While the anger of men is seen as 'stirring' and 'downright American,' women's is 'the screech of nails on our national chalkboard,' asserts journalist Traister in this invigorating look at the achievements of angry women from Carrie Nation to Beyoncé to the Parkland high school students. Through this lens she revisits the 2016 election, #blacklivesmatter and the #metoo movement (including her own Harvey Weinstein story) and cites a study showing you can tolerate pain longer - damn! - if you curse. Perfectly timed and inspiring.

Five weeks after Publication, here is Amazon's ranking as of today (Nov 8): #1 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Women in Politics #1 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies > Feminist Theory #1 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies

A bracing, elucidating look at how transformative it can be for women to harness our rage, and how important it is to use that anger, that energy, for revolution.

A call to arms for women who aren't going to take it anymore.

An admirably rousing narrative.

[Traister] writes with convincing clarity...a feel-good book.

From suffragettes to #MeToo, Traister's book is a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently - and collectively

Rebecca's fantastic interview with the New York Times Read more...

While the anger of men is seen as 'stirring' and 'downright American,' women's is 'the screech of nails on our national chalkboard,' asserts journalist Traister in this invigorating look at the achievements of angry women from Carrie Nation to Beyoncé to the Parkland high school students. Through this lens she revisits the 2016 election, #blacklivesmatter and the #metoo movement (including her own Harvey Weinstein story) and cites a study showing you can tolerate pain longer - damn! - if you curse. Perfectly timed and inspiring.

Traister specializes in writing about feminism and politics, and she knows the turf... especially astute in emphasizing the ways in which black women laid the cornerstones for women's activism in this country... Feminism forces certain complexities into the stream of our daily lives, and Traister has a great gift for articulating them.

A trenchant analysis. Traister argues forcefully that women are an 'oppressed majority in the United States,' kept subjugated partly by racial divisions among the group. Traister closes with a reminder to women not to lose sight of their anger - even when things improve slightly and 'the urgency will fade... if you yourself are not experiencing' injustice or look away from it.

Traister's reported manifesto on feminism after Trump...offers a forceful...inventory of the ways in which women's anger in the public sphere is exaggerated, pathologized, and used to discredit them in a manner unimaginable for men.

A brilliant history of female anger as political fuel, from suffragettes to #MeToo...Read this book. Read all of Traister's books.

Substantial...offering historical, literary, and contemporary context for the wave of millions of women rising in anger via Pantsuit Nation and #MeToo.

A smart, well-researched, incredibly written, and truly relevant book for our time, a time in which women are speaking out, in anger, trying to be heard.

With Traister's incisive prose and a topic that couldn't be more timely, this book is sure to be a fiery read.

Rebecca Traister has been one of the most important contemporary voices for feminism in the Trump era, and here she looks at the transformative power of women's anger in the context of political movements...a deep look at the power and also the complicated results of women's rage.

Urgent, enlightened. well timed for this moment even as they transcend it, the kind of accounts often reviewed and discussed by women but that should certainly be read by men.realistic and compelling.Traister eloquently highlights the challenge of blaming not just forces and systems, but individuals.

As a lightning-fast analysis of the present moment, absorbing all the takes, Traister's book makes for engaging reading, especially the firsthand accounts from organizers she reports on and the sprinkling of American women's history throughout.

Cathartic... a celebration of a catalytic force that burns ever brighter today.

Brilliant and bracing.

As America grapples with the #MeToo movement tidal wave, Rebecca Traister's new book "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" serves as an "Amen, sister!" venting session.

A thoughtful exploration of the many ways in which anger has served various social movements, and who, exactly, society allows to express it. But if reading it makes you want to get out and do something - register new voters, right a wrong, run for office - then Mad is more than good.

A galvanizing, timely study of righteous rage.

Inspiring...Traister is an excellent storyteller.

Fantastic adapted excerpt on The Cut and in this week's New York Magazine Read more...