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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- 80 pages · about 1 hour
- First published 2017
- 20 editions
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1 About this book
Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.
Her suggestions ranged from options for non-stereotyped toy options, to debunking myths that women are somehow biologically programmed to be in the kitchen instead of having a career. Adichie's letter will start an urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Good for readers who want: politics, essays, a true life story, and a short read.
- Political science
- Essays
- Social science
- Politics
- Sociology
- Sex differences
- Biography
- Feminist theory
2 About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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