Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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Book
Description
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 suggestions 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 can start a conversation about what it really means to be a woman today
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
City
New York
State
NY
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Nonfiction
Repository Citation
Adichie , C. N. (2017). Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
