17 must-read womens books like Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

4.35

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a …

"Rage became a layer of my skin."

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

"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."

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

"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."

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

"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."

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

If you liked the womens plot in Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

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  • feminism
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  • essays
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2. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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3. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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4. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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5. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • gender
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • self help
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more

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  • politics
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  • social justice
  • womens
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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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8. The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

By: Lou Marinoff

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The description tells potential customers about your title. A good example of an appropriate book s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When …"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any …"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

"From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the t…"

-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony

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9. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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10. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

By: Meera Shah

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling”  —Cecile Richards, au… read more

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  • womens
  • audiobook
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11. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
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  • audiobook
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12. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

By: Soraya Chemaly

4.35

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
  • self help
"Rage became a layer of my skin."

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

"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."

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

"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."

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

"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."

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

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13. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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14. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne

4.21

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more

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  • politics
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"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理,而应该理解成父权制(patriarchy)在“执法"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"

-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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15. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

By: Rebecca Traister

4.37

Format: 320 pages, ebook

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies comes a vital… read more

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  • politics
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"Women's anger has been buried, over and over again. But it has seeded the ground; we are the green shoots of furies covered up long ago."

-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

"Women's ire in any political context remains coded as chaotic, while men's is comprehensible, understood as rational and often admirable."

-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

"As Amanda Litman... has written, 'Instead of resisting (anger) or avoiding it, let your fury push you to action. Embrace your anger and put it to work."

-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

"When somebody manages to project a lot of strength and a lot of warmth, we say they're charismatic and magnetic, we want to be with that person, we want to be that person,' said Neffinger."

-Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

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16. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

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  • audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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17. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

By: Kate Manne

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

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19. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

By: Sara Ahmed

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more

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"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"

-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

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20. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

By: Rose Hackman

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more

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  • social justice
  • womens
  • self help
Cover of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

21. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

By: Gemma Hartley

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fe… read more

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Laura Bates

4.34

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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

Eve Rodsky

3.56

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Jessica Valenti

3.66

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Soraya Chemaly

4.35

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