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Description
An innovative philosophical study using the lens of epistemic injustice to demonstrate the threefold value of feminist rage in noticing, understanding, and combatting injustice.
The #MeToo movement has come and gone, but women are still angry. What kind of anger is this exactly? Is it dangerous-or could it perhaps be valuable? This through philosophical exploration of anger brings conceptual clarity to the concept of 'feminist rage', theorizing its origins in a so-called 'anger turn.' Using the theoretical framework of Miranda Fricker's 'epistemic injustice', as well as the new and related concept of affective injustice, Sigrid Wallaert argues that feminist rage is routinely silenced and, moreover, that this silencing is nefarious.
More than just a theoretical contribution, Wallaert brings a wake-up call to the field of social epistemology and beyond. Emotions are routinely kept outside of academic methodology, especially 'negative' emotions like anger. Wallaert shows the value to be gained from bringing emotion into our research, both as an object of study and as a methodological approach. The Value of Feminist Rage goes beyond everyday testimony-it reaches into academia too.
Table of Contents
An Age of Anger
Limitations and Improvements
A Roadmap
1. From Women's Anger to Feminist Rage
2. The Anger Turn
2. The Theoretical Framework: Epistemic (In)justice
4. Affective Injustice and Knowing Anger
5. Silencing Feminist Rage
6. Feminist Rage and Injustice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | Sep 17 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350595248 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The Value of Feminist Rage brings theoretical and moral clarity to the understanding of the anger turn. Its contribution is especially valuable and necessary at a time when misogyny not only denigrates women who dare to demand a more just world but also threatens democracy itself.
Huaping Lu-Adler
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This is a timely and accessible take on the importance of feminist rage as a route for recognising and addressing social injustice. This makes it essential reading in an increasingly unjust world and is eminently readable for people with or without a background in philosophy.
Rageshri Dhairyawan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Wallaert lays out the case for a philosophy with politics with enviable wit and clarity
Noreen Masud, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing, University of Bristol, UK

























