Books on Women’s Anger

 
Author’s note: I added links to Bookshop.org whenever possible so that you can purchase books of interest through independent bookstores, if you choose not to borrow the titles from your local library. : ) Happy reading!
 
Author(s) / Editor(s) Title Publisher Year
Ahmed, Sara The Feminist Killjoy Handbook Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books 2023
Arruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto Verso 2019
Beard, Mary Women & Power: A Manifesto Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
Berlant, Lauren and Lee Edelman Sex, or the Unbearable Duke University Press 2013
Burke, Tarana Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Flatiron Books 2021
Carruthers, Charlene A. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements Beacon Press 2019
Chemaly, Soraya Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger Atria Paperback 2019
Cherry, Myisha The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle Oxford University Press 2021
Cooper, Brittney C. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Picador 2019
Dancyger, Lilly, editor Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger Seal Press 2019
Fahs, Breanne Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution Verso 2020
Fazlalizadeh, Tatyana Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power Seal Press (CA) 2020
Gay, Roxane Bad Feminist: Essays Harper Collins 2014
Gay, Roxane Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture Harper Perennial 2018
Gerin, Carolyn, Jamia Wilson & Elisa Camahort Page Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All Ten Speed Press 2018
Gessen, Masha Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot Riverhead Books 2014
Harding, Kate Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America Picador USA 2017
Hartley, Gemma Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward Harper One 2020
Hurley, Kameron The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays Tor Books 2016
Jankowicz, Nina How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back Bloomsbury Academic 2022
Jones, Feminista Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets Beacon Press 2019
Kindig, Jessie The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion Verso 2020
Lorde, Audre Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Crossing Press 2007
Owens, Lama Rod Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger North Atlantic Books 2020
Rankin, Lauren Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America Counterpoint LLC 2022
Roberts, Dorothy Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Vintage 1998
Robinson, Dorothy Anger and Rage of Black Women Liferich 2023
Ryan, Maureen Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Mariner Books 2023
Skurnick, Lizzie Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women Seal Press (CA) 2020
Tolokonnikova, Nadya Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism Harper One 2018
Traister, Rebecca Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger Simon & Schuster 2018
Vogelstein, Rachel B. and Stone, Meighan Awakening: #Metoo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights Public Affairs 2021
The Women’s March Organizers Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World Dey Street Books 2018
Zakaria, Rafia Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption W. W. Norton & Company 2021