![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, many women are encouraged to use sadness – a retreat and less powerful emotion – as a way of minimizing or hiding their own anger, due to a fear of “breaking” relationships or feeling shame. “The book approaches the topic of anger from the perspective that we learn about anger as an experience of individuals,” began Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, “but…our anger has a place in context.” It’s that context, she continued, that we need to understand.įor Chemaly, the 2016 United States presidential election highlighted the ways in which women’s anger plays out in society, and how it is often trivialized and suppressed – particularly the anger of racialized women. ![]()
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