Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2017-03-07

ISBN

1524733148 9781524733148

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"A beautifully written letter. This should be required reading. "

Destiny

"I suggest you even "We should all be feminist". You'll love that too :)"

Costanza Bugiani

"Addressed the right to achieve cell actualization for women. Completely left out the need for boundaries and expectations in a world filled with misogynistic men. Took a gender neutral approach. "

Shaffiat Folahan

"I liked this book, but I also found nearly everything it said to be patently obvious. (The exceptions were one or two of Adichie's specific examples of gender bias in language, which were useful to reflect upon.) Perhaps it would be a more worthwhile read to someone just beginning to think about feminism.<br/><br/>I think it would have benefitted from having more stories and more data to demonstrate points; having just finished it, I remember very little; part of the reason may be this lack of concreteness in it."

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