Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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...
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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
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781524733148
ASIN: B01N9J24Q7
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Finally did a reread, still so damn good an important!!!!***Just like 'We Should All Be Feminists', this book is so damn important and everyone should read it.I could've easily went through this book in one sitting in the span of a few minutes. But I didn't. I took my time and read every one of the ...
Adichie’s follow up to We Should All Be Feminists is at first a how-to manual to raising a feminist. But it is also a deconstruction of gender roles and how boys and girls are raised differently. She notes how men and women are raised to look at marriage and domestic work. But also focuses on langua...
Just like 'We Should All Be Feminists', this book is so damn important and everyone should read it. I could've easily went through this book in one sitting in the span of a few minutes. But I didn't. I took my time and read every one of the suggestions and thought about them. I'm still thinking ab...
Lovely. We should all have a friend like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to write us letters and cheer us on in whatever endeavors we want to do. If you've thought at all about feminism, class, race, gender bias, you'll have thought many of these things already, but I bet you wouldn't put them so tenderly ...
Reading this book felt a little bit like eavesdropping on a personal conversation but it was still interesting and would probably be more relevant to actual parents and those who interact with children, both girls and boys (hey, part of the problem is that we treat boys differently so we should be c...
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