Why the World Needs Angry Women

Women are angrier than men. This is a statistical finding in India as well as elsewhere in the world. Yet, in a system rigged against them, women have historically not been allowed to claim their anger openly. Award-winning author Nilanjana Bhowmick’s Angry Women is a seething, blistering manifesto in favour of the modern woman’s right to anger. Blending biting humour and philosophical depth, Bhowmick shows how women’s anger is different from male anger that often rises out of the need to control, intimidate, and maintain the status quo. Women’s anger, on the other hand, challenges the status quo and is a harbinger of social change. Bhowmick interviews thirteen women from diverse socio-political backgrounds, whose anger has shaped the conscience of the nation. These include Fatima Nafees, the grieving mother of missing JNU student Najeeb; Beena Pallical, a firebrand Dalit activist; Lakshmi Kushwaha, a Jal Saheli who fought for water rights in arid Bundelkhand; Priya Malik, the internet’s darling spoken-word poet; Rachita Taneja, the mind behind the wildly popular Sanitary Panels webcomics, and many more. This book builds a resounding case for those branded ‘too much’ simply for demanding more out of life. It will compel you to re-examine everything you thought you knew about women, anger, and the fight for equality.