Dear Ijeawele: a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions

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 ho...

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1. Verfasser: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London 4th Estate 2018
Ausgabe:4th Estate paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:"This is a slightly expanded version of a letter written by the author as a Facebook post on 12 October 2016" -- Title page verso
First published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate
Beschreibung:66 Seiten 18 cm
ISBN:9780008275709