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Ms. Gunst, who has written more than a dozen cookbooks, said in an interview, “I was aware of the hashtag ‘rage baking.’ I was aware of the hashtag ‘rage baker,’ ‘feminist baker’ — there are quite a few women on social media who are bakers and activists. I was absolutely aware of her.”

So why was Ms. Jones excluded?

Ms. Gunst and Ms. Alford, who is a former executive at the Food Network, said they reached out to prominent personalities such as Betty Fussell, Vallery Lomas, Carla Hall and Julia Turshen. In part because Ms. Jones wasn’t well known in the food-media realm, she was not approached.

“I don’t see how they’re breaking barriers and uplifting women’s voices,” Ms. Jones said on Friday. “If they’re celebrating this larger cultural movement, why not celebrate the people who are doing the work? Why is it all people who have platforms, and who are established, and not a mix?”

Rebecca Traister, a journalist who contributed an excerpt from her book “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger,” said she found Ms. Jones’s case persuasive.

“That the authors were aware of her work but did not acknowledge it, or seek to work with her, obviously made me angry,” said Ms. Traister, who has asked the authors to remove her essay from future editions of the book.

Preeti Mistry, a chef who contributed a recipe to the book, said the issue is not whether or not Ms. Jones invented the term. (Ms. Jones is the first to note that it was used by bakers before her.)