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The Value of Feminist Rage
Epistemic and Affective Injustice
The Value of Feminist Rage
Epistemic and Affective Injustice
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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 | 20 Aug 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 9781350596191 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| 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
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Anger is entrenched within contemporary political life. Activists and racists express and use anger in pursuit of their very different visions of society. Sigrid Wallaert draws on contemporary defences and critiques of varieties of anger to articulate a specific kind of 'feminist rage', exploring what it does in an imperfect world. This rage is related to epistemic and affective injustices and the dynamism of anger, injustice, and social reality. Epistemologists, social philosophers, feminist theorists, and emotion theorists will appreciate Wallaert's reflections, as well anyone concerned to transform political anger into positive action.
Ian James Kidd, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
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