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.
I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try.
In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Here, in this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend’s request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist. With its 15 pieces of practical advice, it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the 21st century.
Great tips to educate a child to be a feminist … Great tips to educate a child to be a feminist human being. In this case we have a girl, but it is easy to pass it to a boy, or at last most of the author’s suggestion can be applied to both gender. She is and remains as usual one of my favorite author.Â
Great for women of all ages I loved it. This is the second book I’ve read by Adichie, the first one being We Should All Be Feminist. Afterward, I was smiling to myself and wishing that this book had been around when I was a teenager.
Brilliantly simple, unapologetic, and earnest – a fast and direct read on how to promote equality. Spend $10 to buy this book right now. It’s brilliantly simple, gentle but direct, unapologetic, and earnest. It took me a mere 15 minutes to get halfway through it this morning while getting ready for work, and now I’m itching to get back home to finish it. EVERYONE should read this book and it MUST change the way you interact with all those you love: women, men, girls, and boys alike.Â