Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Audiobook (Free)

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Through the best-selling writer of Americanah and WE HAVE TO All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today–written like a notice 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 woman being a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is definitely Adichie’s notice of response.

Listed below are fifteen important recommendations– about Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions compelling, immediate, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a little girl to become a strong, independent female. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, like a gadget if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothing, make-up, and sexuality; debunking the myth that ladies are in some way biologically arranged to maintain the kitchen making dinner, and that males can ‘allow’ females to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the center of intimate politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently required conversation in what it really methods to be a female today.