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In her new book, Good and Mad  Rebecca Traister uncovers the history of women's anger in American politics—from the suffragettes to #MeToo. She argues that this collective fury is often the hidden force that drives political change, but rarely has it ever been hailed as fundamentally transformative or patriotic. Traister says "what we have to acknowledge is that we live in a world that doesn't make room for our anger and that punishes us for expressing it and that's the part we have to change—we have to change the way it's received. It means taking it seriously and altering the way we understand the validity and potential of women's fury." 

To discuss her book and what it says about our current political state, Traister was joined by Aminatou Sow, co-host of the podcast "Call Your Girlfriend."

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