Publisher:
Harper
Collins.
Year: 2014.
Pages: 52.
ISBN-13: 978-0008115272.
Mark: 9/10
Abstract:
A
personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling
author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk
of the same name. What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the
heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay –
adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie, the award-winning author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’.
With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of
feminism for the twenty-first century – one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more
insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in
order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked
realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own
experiences – in the U.S., in her native Nigeria – offering an artfully nuanced
explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike.
Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a
best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it
means to be a woman today – and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should
all be feminists.
Publisher:
Fourth
Estate.
Year: 2017.
Pages: 96.
IBSN-13: 978-0008275709
Mark: 9/10
Abstract:
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 invaluable
suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to
empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her
to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having
open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the
myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making
dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear
Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first
century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it
really means to be a woman today."
