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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: January Lavoy
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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 fifteen pieces of practical advice it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century.

©2017 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Gender Studies Parenting & Families Political Science Politics & Government Relationships Social Sciences

Critic Reviews

‘Take note world. When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells you to listen, you listen’ Stylist

‘Dear Ijeawele reminds us that, in the history of feminist writing, it is often the personal and epistolary voice that carries the political story most powerfully – For me, the most powerful sentence in the book is its simplest, and comes in only the third paragraph. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges Ijeawele to remember to transmit to her daughter “the solid unbending belief that you start off with . . . Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not ‘if only’. Not ‘as long as’. I matter equally. Full stop.”..there is no doubt that if we raised all of our daughters to believe completely that they “matter equally”, to trust what they feel and think and to worry less about how they look and come across, we would soon find new ways to challenge the multiple injustices and indignities that still limit, and even wreck, so many women’s lives.’ New Statesman
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I absolutely loved this book. Thank you so much Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for writing this book. Highly recommend. This is going to be my go-to gift for my close friends becoming new mums to daughters.

Every mother & daughter should read this book

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Every man woman and child should know these fundamentals. Especially to be read by young women and men!!!

YES YES YES!!

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Fantastic. Specific examples of how all people can live with equality for all. (Because feminism is, of course, about equality for women and men.)

I definitely recommend it.

A must-listen for every human

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