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Article: Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively
- Article from:
- Anglican Theological Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Anglican Theological Review, Inc. Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Transforming Fire: Women Using Anger Creatively. By Kathleen Fischer. New York and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1999. vi + 201 pp. $14.95 (paper).
Anyone who has ever struggled with anger will find Kathleen Fischer's Transforming Fire a thought-provoking and useful resource. Fischer directs her book, however, primarily at women because she rightfully insists that culture shapes both the experience and the expression of emotion (p. 10), and that within Western Christian society, women especially have been taught that their anger is inappropriate and unacceptable. Some women struggle with restraint and the appropriate expression of anger while others struggle to identify anger so that it ...