![]() ![]() She discusses the Second Wave women’s movement of the 1960’s and 70’s, and black women’s anger as their leadership was ignored by both their allies and the media. Traister analyzes the role of women’s anger in the long fight for suffrage, and the racist anger of white suffragists when black men won the franchise first. ![]() Good and Mad focuses on women’s political fervor following the election of Donald Trump: the 2017 Women’s March, the #MeToo movement, and the explosive growth in women running for office, the great majority of them Democrats. ![]() But as I read it after the hearing, it rang true. Rebecca Traister’s book on the political potential of women’s anger was written at white heat in four months, and released before the toxic farce of the Kavanaugh hearing. And as her testimony dragged on, in a show trial with a foregone conclusion, I sat furious, and was relieved when her ordeal was over. I saw the fear in her face, her rapid shallow breathing, and worse, her anxiety to please, to make sure she didn’t offend or inconvenience anyone. Blasey Ford testify about being sexually assaulted in high school? The moment I saw that long arc of mostly male faces sitting in judgment, I began crying and cursing, yelling “fuckers, bastards, assholes.” My rage astonished me. Good and Mad, the Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, by Rebecca Traister. ![]()
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