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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking how to raise her new baby girl a feminist. Although she has written and spoken out widely about feminism, Adichie wasn't sure how to advise her friend Ijeawele. But as a person who'd babysat,... show more
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking how to raise her new baby girl a feminist.

Although she has written and spoken out widely about feminism, Adichie wasn't sure how to advise her friend Ijeawele. But as a person who'd babysat, had loved her nieces and nephews, and now, too, was the mother of a daughter herself, she thought she would try. So she sent Ijeawele a letter with some suggestions--15 in all--which she has now decided to share with the world.

Compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive, Dear Ijeawele offers specifics on how we can empower our daughters to become strong, independent women. Here, too, are ways parents can raise their children--both sons and daughters--beyond a culture's limiting gender prescriptions. This short, sharp work rings out in Chimamanda's voice: infused with deep honesty, clarity, strength, and above all love. She speaks to the important work of raising a girl in today's world, and provides her readers with a clear proposal for inclusive, nuanced thinking. Here we have not only a rousing manifesto, but a powerful gift for all people invested in the idea of creating a just society--an endeavour now more urgent and important than ever.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780735273405 (0735273405)
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Pages no: 63
Edition language: English
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Bookish thoughts!!!
Bookish thoughts!!! rated it
5.0 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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 ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
5.0
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...
Bookish thoughts!!!
Bookish thoughts!!! rated it
5.0 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions!!!
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...
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it
3.0 Good read for girls
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 ...
Tannat
Tannat rated it
3.0 Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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