Good and mad : the revolutionary power of women's anger
(Book)

Includes index.

Illustration on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-271) and index.

In this trenchant analysis, Traister explores the "nexus of women's anger and American politics," in which "noncompliant, insistent, furious women have shaped our history and our present." This emotion, she writes, "has often ignited movements for social change and progress." Yet it often goes unacknowledged in a culture in which women in politics are "not lauded for their fury." At the core of this analysis is the idea female political activism by Florynce Kennedy, Rosa Parks, and Shirley Chisholm has been erased rather than celebrated, and that women are an oppressed majority kept subjugated partly by racial divisions. She writes about the failure of the ERA, the role of women in the Tea Party, responses to Hillary Clinton's presidential run, and the birth of the #MeToo movement, closing with a reminder to women not to lose sight of their anger -- even when things improve slightly. "Being mad is correct; being mad is American; being mad can be joyful and productive and connective." --,Adapted from Publishers Weekly.