“In theory, it sounds like the best of both worlds, but in reality, having it all means having entirely too much on your plate.” Fed Up’s chief value lies in its reassurances that emotional labor, too often considered “women’s work,” is also damn hard work. “We can have the family and the career,” writes Hartley, who is married and has three children. Hartley’s book is the one most attuned to women’s everyday stresses: Fed Up focuses on the largely invisible yet draining multitudinous tasks, collected under the umbrella term “ emotional labor,” that women per form daily just to keep their family and work lives moving along. Though each of these writers takes a markedly different approach, all three tackle the same core idea: channeled constructively, women’s anger is a potent tool for change. 13) constitute a mini-revolution in themselves. 2) and Gemma Hartley’s Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women and the Way Forward (Nov. Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger (out now), Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger (coming Oct. It says something that not one, not two, but three books dealing specifically with women’s anger are popping over the ridge of this embattled landscape this fall.
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