Rebecca Traister has been a writer that I've admired for a long time, and I've had Good & Mad on my to read list probably since it was first released, back in 2018.

This is a book that has not aged well, not because its content isn't interesting, but because it is so heavily rooted in its period, that reading it six years later and staring down the highly probably threat of a second Trump presidential term felt quite deflating.

Written in the immediate aftermath of Hilary Clinton losing the election to Trump in 2016, Traister uses this event as an anchor around which to talk about other times that female anger has been used as a double-edged sword to prevent progression; and times where female rage has truly had revolutionary power. This was very compelling when Traister dipped into history, or contemporary examples that were not Clinton. However, it did feel slightly repetitive to constantly return to the 2016 election - although as someone who was similarly devastated by that result I can understand the temptation. It would be interesting to read an updated version as it is clear that any rage has not made too much of a different, especially that from white women.