63 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2017
Dear Ijeawele, or A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
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Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Her suggestions ranged from options for non-stereotyped toy options, to debunking myths that women are somehow biologically programmed to be in the kitchen instead of having a career. Adichie's letter will start an urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Subjects
- Social aspects
- Feminist theory
- Parental influences
- Social conditions
- Mothers and daughters
- Child rearing
- Feminism
- Women