Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Release Date: 2017-03-07
  • Genre: Social Science
Score: 5
5
From 181 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year

Reviews

  • I wish I read this earlier

    5
    By Eva wa Kamau
    This book opened up my eyes. I have always felt as if the society I live in is extremely biased and misogynistic and this book made me understand why. I am a 19 year old woman and I still have so much to learn. If I only my very traditional African mother would’ve raised me this way... It’s not too late for me to change my perception of the world and my character, and this book made me realize that. For that I’m thankful.
  • Brilliant read

    5
    By obislens
    Brilliant read! I believe this applies to raising both girls and boys alike