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Good and Mad (2018) lists the many reasons for feminist political anger. This anger, though repressed for the past few decades, has recently reemerged, as evidenced by the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo movement. By understanding the historical, political, cultural and economic currents underlying these two landmark events, we can better understand history as it unfolds before our eyes.

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Rebecca Traister, a writer-at-large at New York magazine and a contributing editor at Elle, is an author and journalist. Operating from a feminist standpoint, she has written about women in politics, media and entertainment for many high-profile publications, including the New Republic and the Washington Post. Her previous books include the best seller All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.

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