Mad as Hell

Greenfield discusses Rebecca Traister's book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger. The book is largely an aggregation of rage from the past two years, from the 2016 election through #MeToo up to the midterm races happening right now. History has a habit of erasing female anger, Traister argues. Fuming-hot ire is the necessary and righteous fuel for igniting radical social change: It drove the suffragists, labor organizers, second-wave feminists, and civil rights activists to push for the right to vote, humane working conditions, reproductive freedoms, and racial equality under the law.