#Soraya Chemaly

[radfemreader]

I made my url with the intention of posting book reviews - is this the year I actually do it? maybe!

The first book I finished this year was Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly.

This was a reread, this time I read it with my feminist book club which really added to the experience. (If you're in the Midwest of the USA and interested in meeting radical feminists near you, DM me for an invite to the discord!)

This book is pitched as an exploration of the power of women's anger. It does touch on that topic throughout, but it's more so an argument for why we need feminism. Each chapter focuses on a topic, for example motherhood or sexual violence, and describes the way women are and have been treated using both results from studies and examples or anecdotes from the author or the news. I appreciated the seriousness and the scope - this didn't fall into the libfem girl power trap that a lot of mainstream feminist books do, and seemed well researched and well cited.

It can be very relentless reading, particularly the section on violence, and I found the bulk of the book rather disheartening. This isn't exactly a flaw, it's just painful to read about everything women face laid out in this way. I can imagine it would be very eye opening for someone who is maybe not really convinced that we still need feminism, or who hasn't been familiar with the extent to which women suffer under patriarchy.

With that in mind, I'd recommend this book as a gift for your casual libfem friend or your mildly misogynistic family member. If you're already familiar with feminism, as I assume those reading this review are, I'd recommend reading the intro, the last chapter, and the conclusion. Could also be a good reference for further reading from its sources.

#My reading #Rage Becomes Her #Soraya Chemaly #Feminism #Book reviews

[gaerfinn]

#rage becomes her #soraya chemaly #sexism #gender roles #feminism

[black-lizard]

They describe women's anger as moving 'sideways' -- diverted into relational and passive aggression, physical symptoms, and, for some people, what amounts to constant low-grade and hard-to-describe irritability. In their book, three researcher-clinicians propose that many of the diseases and physical discomforts common to women are transformations of anger into 'socially acceptable forms of distress.'

Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly

#rage becomes her #soraya chemaly #quotes #feminism #anger #i'm always angry or irritable

[darkalleysunflower]

It took me too long to realize that the people most inclined to say 'You sound angry' are the same people who uniformly don’t care to ask 'Why?' They’re interested in silence, not dialogue. This response to women expressing anger happens on larger and larger scales: in schools, places of worship, the workplace, and politics. A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women—not as human beings, thinkers, knowers, active participants, or citizens.

Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

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[feywildfancypants]

This book taught me that anger was ok to feel, and in fact was the first step on my journey to loving myself. Anger is our first warning against something being wrong, which means that we understand that we deserve something better. It can be a powerful tool in building something more.

Rage Become Her: the power of women’s anger by Soraya Chemly

#anger becomes her #books that changed me #soraya chemaly

[edwardian-masquerade]

"The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun. In the coming years, we will hear, again, that anger is a destructive force, to be controlled. Watch carefully, because not everyone is asked to do this in equal measure."

-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

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[hellokittygothh]

"Rage became a layer of my skin" - Soraya chemaly

#female rage #feminine rage #rage #tw blood #dark aesthetic #goth aesthetic #gothic #dark core gothique #dark academia #dark art #art #quotes #Spotify

[alicntsdnce]

mark strand, from seven poems // brynne rebele-henry, from self-portrait as a broken venus statuette // soraya chemaly, from rage becomes her: the power of women’s anger // audre lorde, from sister love: the letters of audre lorde & pat parker // anne carson, from plainwater: essays and poetry // caitlyn siehl, from cut // dan pagis, from dead apocalyptic poems // rainer maria rilke, from rilker’s book of hours // katie maria, from the memory of a memory // mieko kawakami, from heaven 

#hotd #aemond targaryen #house of the dragon #hotdedit #aemondtargaryenedit #houseofthedragonedit #asoiafedit #my gifs #bysarah

[theonlysparkle2]

"Angry women burn brighter than the sun "

Soraya Chemaly, in Rage Becomes Her

#girl interrupted #female hysteria #femcel #girl interupted syndrome #manic pixie dream girl #female rage

[dhaaruni]

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn//“A Letter to my Rage” by Lidia Yuknavitch//“Becoming Ugly” by Madeleine Davis//“The Man” by Taylor Swift//Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly//Cersei Lannister in A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

#it’s okay that I’m mad #collected texts #Cersei Lannister #ofc

[feminist-pussycat]

We minimize our anger, calling it frustration, impatience, exasperation, or irritation, words that don't convey the intrinsic social and public demand that 'anger' does. We learn to contain our selves: our voices, hair, clothes, and, most importantly, speech. Anger is usually about saying "no" in a world where women are conditioned to say almost anything but "no.

Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her

#rage becomes her #feminism #female anger #rage #radfem

[black-lizard]

However, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world and is the only country in which that rate is growing. Today it is safer to give birth in Bosnia or Kuwait than in California, and a woman having a baby in the United States is six times more likely to die than one in Scandinavia. According to the CDC, black mothers in the United States die at three to four times the rate of white mothers, one of the widest of all racial disparities in women's health.

Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly

https://www.propublica.org/article/nothing-protects-black-women-from-dying-in-pregnancy-and-childbirth

#rage becomes her #soraya chemaly #feminism #intersectionality #misogynoir

[plasticwerewolf]

Dennis + Feminine Rage and the Feminine Mystique

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John William Waterhouse//Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs//Paris Paloma//Betty Friedan//Soraya Chemaly//Artemisia Gentileschi// Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs//Suzanne Buffam

[maaarine]

Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods (Mariana Alessandri, 2023)

"A society that equates a woman’s strength with her capacity to bottle up her grievances, a society that admonishes us with the perennial reminder that someone else has it worse, a society that hands her a self-help book instead of admitting that she has a raw deal, is a society full of sick women.

In Rage Becomes Her, the anger expert Soraya Chemaly discusses a study that found that “anger is the single, most salient emotional contributor to pain.”

And because women suffer more silently than men, Chemaly concludes, anger affects women’s bodies in ways we have not even realized yet.

What my sweet Minnesotan cousin has been calling “chronic pelvic pain” might also very well be repressed anger.

After all, we’ve learned that when we swallow anger it does not disappear.

We have also heard that when we express it (as boys are more often encouraged to), we survive.

In one study cited by Chemaly, breast cancer patients who ex- pressed their anger survived at twice the rate of those who kept it in."

#mariana alessandri #night vision #book #weaker sex

[b3lialx]

“sex segregation and exclusion aren’t legitimate responses to women’s demands that we no longer, as a society, tolerate sexual discrimination in the workplace” - Soraya Chemaly on the “Pence rule”

#feminism #mgtow

[soracities]

Hi, I hope this ask finds you well. Life has been chronically & impossibly unfair to me. I try to deal with things as best I can, perservere & attempt to move through things with as much grace as possible, try to find beauty & gratitude where I can. But some things weigh so heavy. I think sometimes there is a place for anger.

My question is, do you have any quotes you could share on anger? or betrayal? Or any book recommendations where those themes come into play? I think it could be somewhat cathartic, and it would be so appreciated.

Thank you. ❤️

Hi lovely! I'm really sorry that you're going through so much, and I can only imagine the frustration and exhaustion of it all. The most I have is a quote compilation here. As for book recommendations, I've been recced Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly a few times, so maybe there will be something there for you also. I hope you are able to find an outlet for everything you're feeling and carrying right now and that you are able to move through it in the healthiest way possible for you 💕

#if anyone has other recs also please do add them in ty!! #also for pure venting / catharsis would also rec medea by euripides but otherwise yes #absolutely agree w you: there IS a place for anger. and i think so much of being able to deal w impossibility of some things comes down to #giving anger its place. along w grace and care 💗 #ask #anonymous #book recs