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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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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.
List Of Books Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
| Title | : | Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions |
| Author | : | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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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Ratings: 4.53 From 47743 Users | 6433 ReviewsAssessment Of Books Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.I'm actually mad that I have to return this book to the library. I need to own this book. The author has such a way with words. She states her opinion in a matter of fact and simple way. I wish I were able to do the same but I'll have to content myself with using her quotes!It warms my cold dead heart to know that women like her exist out there in theDear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a letter she wrote to a close friend who has just given birth to a daughter. The friend has asked her to describe how to raise the daughter to be a feminist in Nigeria, a male centered country. Spelling out how to raise a feminist daughter in fifteen steps, this letter can be viewed as a companion piece to We Should All be Feminists and a manifesto of how to raise all children to view all people with respect. Even though I recently read We Should All
This book was so quotable. Very short but very powerful; I highlighted pretty much every other line. I don't intend on having kids, but this made me think a lot about how we train girls and boys to be and the gender roles we should avoid them adopting, and it was very empowering and great advice.
Because social norms are created by human beings...there is no social norm that cannot be changed.Weve all heard the maxim that change starts with you, which is something we must all take to heart and shoulder the responsibility. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the powerful novel Americanah and the powerful TedTalk We Should All Be Feminists, reminds parents how important the idea of change beginning with them is in her letter to a close friend, recently revised and published as Dear
FIVE STARS, of course! Confession.I need 4 more books to make my 2018 goal. Four more books in a very busy month is not realistic for me. I'm doubting my strength to power through it in December.Solution. Audio books. Short audio books. My Overdrive app offers a section for short audio books under three hours. Honestly, many of them are less than one hour. Hey, I read three books today!! And anyone can do it!I've got this goal. Almost.I'm a die-hard fan of the brilliant Adichie. I firmly believe
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has the most incredible way with words and how to get her points across with humour and hope. This, a letter to her friend who asks her 'how do I raise my daughter feminist?', was brimming with warmth and power whilst asking us all to check ourselves and how feminist we are when we say what we do and act as feminists.
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