Recently, rage has been making a headway in media, from movies to songs to even literature. In literature, this multifaceted subject can come into its own in an even more elaborate and expounded way. It can be cathartic to see this inherited rage that is so ingrained within our stories, but pushed away from our outermost perceived experiences written on these pages. Seeing these reasons to be angry, all these injustices and inequalities in black and white in front of us, permits us to feel more comfortable with these emotions. “I’m not feeling them, the character is feeling them,” mentality, and that feels safer in some ways. These books just scratch the surface of the slew of books that tackle the righteous frustration and anger that needs to be peeled back and addressed, layer by layer.

There are whole subgenres that focus on women’s issues, and thus the feminine rage within them, like “female gothic”, “pink horror”, “femme gore”, and “hagsploitation”. Even though feminine rage can be explored in any genre, it really pops off the page in genres such as psychological thrillers, fantasy, historical fiction, contemporary/literary fiction, and horror. Anything from revenge plots to witchcraft stories, mythological retellings to the realism of a subtle and quiet rage that simmers over time, from reclaiming agency to using horror as a metaphor are themes that really come into their own within these stories.