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| Original Title: | Dear Ijeawele; or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions |
| ISBN: | 152473313X (ISBN13: 9781524733131) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hardcover | Pages: 63 pages Rating: 4.53 | 47743 Users | 6433 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions |
| Author | : | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 63 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2017 by Knopf Publishing Group |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Feminism. Writing. Essays. Audiobook. Womens. Parenting. Adult |
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
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Ratings: 4.53 From 47743 Users | 6433 ReviewsWeigh Up Regarding Books Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Here's a very short book with a lot of wisdom.Just because it's short it does not mean it is a light read, not at all.Years ago, the author received a letter from a childhood friend who had just given birth to a baby girl. In the letter, her friend asks Chimamanda for advise on how to raise her daughter as a feminist. Oh boy, and did she deliver a response. You know she did.The book is divided in small chapters and in each chapter there's a suggestion or topic from the author. The topics rangeAfter having seen the scene below shared online, which was taken from this powerful short film, I immediately wanted to absorb myself in some much needed feminist literature. At which point I recalled the existence of Dear Ijeawele, which I'd gratefully received as an ARC.*Trigger warning: rape.* In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and
Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not if only. Not as long as. I matter equally. Full stop. I honestly cannot think of any author who writes essays as equally hard-hitting and utterly readable as Adichie does. Perhaps Roxane Gay's work could be said to be as compelling, or Ta-Nehisi Coates's work to be as powerful, but Adichie always comes out on top, for me, as someone who can write about important subjects with a conversational tone that makes them pageturners.This
I loved this little book.As someone getting married and starting to think about having children, this book resonated so strongly with me, and really inspired me in a couple of areas for how I want to approach my relationship and parenting. It's like in one little book she managed to summarize so many things I feel like I've learned and begun to care about in the last decade, and threw in a few more ideas as well. As soon as I finished it I immediately handed it to my fiance, to help us even
As a mother of a son and daughter(s), this book speaks to me on a deeply personal level and I hope I can raise my children with a sense of what it is to be a feminist. All I want for them all is to grow up in a society that is inherently equal to all, without any biases towards what they grow up to be.I hope they already have some idea about the values discussed here. I'm the main earner in our family, my husband and I divided the childcare equally and I would never impose supposed views on them
I didn't feel like I needed to read what I thought is Adichie's longer work on feminism, We Should All Be Feminists, because I agree with her and count myself a feminist and read feminists and live it and raise my kids according to these principles. But I saw this and thought this might be the "Cliff's Notes" or "executive summary" for the longer book. Since then Julie tells me that other book isn't actually longer, just fyi.Adichie said she had wanted to get her thoughts together about feminism
[Originally appeared here (with edits): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li...]Feminism A rather commonly used terms these days, with interpretations far and wide, but not necessarily, coherent. If among contemporary writers there is one who imparts veritable meaning and clarity to this much relevant and pertinent ideology, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie would be her name.When a friend asked Adichie how she can raise her little daughter as a feminist, Adichie shared fifteen suggestions in form of a
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