Soraya Chemaly

"A new, conversation-shifting book that encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change, written by one of today's most influential feminist thinkers"--

The author of the “must read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology.We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises.It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life, The Resilience Myth offers alternative visions of relational hardiness by emphasizing care for others and our environments above all.

From the award-winning author of a “battle-cry of a book” (The Guardian) Rage Becomes Her, comes a fearless and timely manifesto for identifying and rejecting male supremacy in our daily lives. Drawing on her trademark skill, wit, clarity, and sharp insight, Soraya Chemaly walks us through how male supremacy operates, adapting dynamically in order to maintain cruel, exploitative systems of oppression. Male supremacy, she asserts, isn’t primarily about men dominating women; but rather a system that first and foremost violently pits men against each other using women and marginalized communities as resources in their competition for power. Under this system, anyone who isn’t white, straight, CIS, and adhering to strict rules of traditional masculinity is considered inferior and rendered “other”—women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, immigrants, religious minorities, the disabled, and Black and Indigenous communities. Being feminized defines vulnerability, exploitability, and disposability. There is no justice for any community until we confront this defining injustice. Most men don’t have to benefit from this system or feel powerful for this system to work, indeed only a relatively few do. While women, particularly those with multiple marginalized identities, are hurt the most, men, too, need liberation from this oppressive system. All We Want Is Everything offers both unflinching analysis and genuine hope, informed by the bold and revolutionary potential of feminist imagination. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart. This fresh, timely, clear-eyed, and necessary manifesto is a call to refuse supremacist identities, relationships, and values in order to build more just, healthy, and sustainable worlds for everyone.

Frauen haben in unserer Gesellschaft allen Grund, wütend zu sein – Sexismus, Diskriminierung, Misogynie –, aber zornige Frauen gelten als hysterisch, und so schweigen sie. Bis jetzt. Die US-amerikanische Aktivistin Soraya Chemaly zeigt in ihrem aufrüttelnden Buch, welche befreiende Kraft in weiblicher Wut steckt.Gleichbehandlung ist bis heute Mädchen sollen artig sein, Jungen durchsetzungsfähig. Frauen werden im Berufsalltag doppelt so oft unterbrochen wie ihre Kollegen. Bei gleichen Symptomen bekommen Männer Schmerzmittel – und Frauen Beruhigungsmittel. Anhand von Fakten und persönlichen Erlebnissen veranschaulicht Chemaly, wie die Erfahrung von Sexismus sich in Psyche und Körper von Frauen einschreibt und zu einer tiefsitzenden Wut wird. In Speak out! plädiert Chemaly für eine radikale Neubewertung weiblicher Richtig eingesetzt, kann sie zu einer mächtigen Waffe gegen persönliche und politische Unterdrückung werden und uns helfen, die Welt zu verändern.

MIGLIOR LIBRO DELL’ANNO - selezione WASHINGTON POST “Un libro importante per le donne e per il futuro della società.” Gloria SteinemUn invito incoraggiante e liberatorio per tutte le donne ad abbracciare la loro rabbia e a usarla come strumento per realizzarsi e cambiare la propria vita.Come donne, ci è stato ripetuto per troppo tempo di reprimere la nostra rabbia, e noi l’abbiamo tenuta dentro fino a farci logorare il corpo e la mente. Eppure, ci sono tante ragioni legittime per sentirci arrabbiate. Siamo sottopagate e lavoriamo troppo. Troppo sensibili o non abbastanza. Troppo dimesse o troppo appariscenti. Troppo grasse o troppo magre. Puttane o puritane.La nostra rabbia non solo è giustificata, ci dice Soraya Chemaly, ma può diventare parte attiva della soluzione. La rabbia è una delle risorse più importanti che abbiamo. Se affrontata in modo consapevole, può diventare forza creativa, può essere uno strumento vitale che ci apre la strada per il cambiamento personale e sociale. Quanti risultati straordinari, infatti, non sarebbero mai stati raggiunti senza il nucleo di rabbia che li ha alimentati?Con forza, empatia e profondità di analisi, Donne che non si arrabbiano abbastanza, bestseller tradotto in tutto il mondo, ci regala un percorso unico e chiaro per fare della nostra rabbia un’opportunità. Questo sentimento fa parte di noi, e comprenderlo fino in fondo ci darà un grande senso di liberazione e ci connetterà a un intero universo di donne. Ci sentiremo interessate non più a compiacere gli altri, ma a stare bene con noi stesse, capaci di guadagnare la serenità e la felicità che ci meritiamo. “Necessario e illuminante.” Washington Post