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In this article, we explore bodily challenges women can experience when making angry place claims in social interactions based on interviews with 47 women across two generations and Candace Clark's concepts of social place claims and micro‐hierarchy. Our empirical analysis explores situations where women experience that their bodies negatively affect the reception of their anger and the enclosed challenges they experience in claiming an 'angry place.' First, we examine how general stereotypes associated with female biology challenge women's anger expression. Second, we explore how specific physical traits, such as weaker bodies and shrill voices, put some women at a disadvantage when they feel angry and wish to assert authority. Finally, we consider how crying when angered, a mainly female phenomenon, is communicatively deceptive and undermines efforts to claim place based on righteous anger in social interactions. We conclude that the body matters for social negotiations of place claims and that microsociology could benefit from further explorations of the role of the body vis‐à‐vis place claims.

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