PRAISE FOR GOOD AND MAD BY REBECCA TRAISTER "[A] rousing look at the political uses of this supposedly unfeminine emotion...written with energy and conviction...galvanizing reading."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Urgent, enlightened... well timed for this moment even as they transcend it, the kind of accounts often reviewed and discussed by women but that should certainly be read by men...realistic and compelling...Traister eloquently highlights the challenge of blaming not just forces and systems, but individuals."-WASHINGTON POST "While the anger of men is seen as 'stirring' and 'downright American, ' women's is 'the screech of nails on our national chalkboard, ' asserts journalist Traister in this invigorating look at the achievements of angry women from Carrie Nation to Beyoncé to the Parkland high school students. Through this lens she revisits the 2016 election, #blacklivesmatter and the #metoo movement (including her own Harvey Weinstein story) and cites a study showing you can tolerate pain longer - damn! - if you curse. Perfectly timed and inspiring."-PEOPLE (BOOK OF THE WEEK) "Traister specializes in writing about feminism and politics, and she knows the turf...especially astute in emphasizing the ways in which black women laid the cornerstones for women's activism in this country...Feminism forces certain complexities into the stream of our daily lives, and Traister has a great gift for articulating them."-TIME MAGAZINE "Cathartic...a celebration of a catalytic force that burns ever brighter today."-O MAGAZINE "From suffragettes to #MeToo, Traister's book is a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently-and collectively."-VANITY FAIR "An admirably rousing narrative."-ATLANTIC "A resounding polemic against political, cultural, and personal injustices in America...With articulate vitriol backed by in-depth research, Traister validates American women's anger.... Traister has meticulously culled smart, timely, surprising quotations from women as well as men. The combined strength of these many individual voices and stories gives the book tremendous gravity.... A gripping call to action that portends greater liberty and justness for all."-KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) "A trenchant analysis... Traister argues forcefully that women are an 'oppressed majority in the United States, ' kept subjugated partly by racial divisions among the group. Traister closes with a reminder to women not to lose sight of their anger-even when things improve slightly and 'the urgency will fade... if you yourself are not experiencing' injustice or look away from it."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) "Timely and absorbing, Traister's fiery tome is bound to attract attention and discussion. Traister takes a deep dive into the current political climate to explore the contemporary and historical relationship women have with anger and the ramifications of expressing and suppressing feminine rage. Traister uses...startlingly obvious double standard[s] to explore how attaching negative connotations to women's anger has always been used to silence and dismiss them."-BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) "Good and Mad is Rebecca Traister's ode to women's rage-an extensively researched history and analysis of its political power. It is a thoughtful, granular examination: Traister considers how perception (and tolerance) of women's anger shifts based on which women hold it (*cough* white women *cough*) and who they direct it toward; she points to the ways in which women are shamed for or gaslit out of their righteous emotion. And she proves, vigorously, why it's so important for women to own and harness their rage-how any successful revolution depends on it."-BUZZFEED "Women are angry, and Rebecca Traister is just the person to chart the topography of their rage, its causes, and its effects....A galvanizing, timely study of righteous rage."-ELLE "With Traister's incisive prose and a topic that