![]() It also examines the forces working against or undermining historical movements, and the flaws and fundamental ignorance in, for example, the work of people who woke up mad on November 9, 2016, but didn’t know or acknowledge the longer history of women’s reactionary rage and the suppression of marginalized voices in each iteration of women’s movements. Good and Mad is an analysis of the history of women’s anger and rage, and an examination of how it appears, is suppressed, and eventually evolves into something new but also very familiar. My biggest problem was that the resolution or call to action at the end felt insufficient, though that may be due to my own expectations and experience. I enjoyed it in a cathartic manner because I was able to re-examine things I lived through but was too young or too inexperienced to fully comprehend the whys behind them, and because I was able to recognize the larger pattern hidden in or from history, which is at times both frustrating and soothing (I love patterns. I expect the file I sent back to the library was glad to get away from me. Good and Mad is a wonderful example and I highlighted the absolute crap out of it. ![]() I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction lately, especially books that focus on cultural or sociological analysis and the arduous work of reframing how we talk about and examine people, events, groups, or all of the above. ![]()
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