![]() As well as learning what you should be teaching young girls, youll see how your. ![]() ”'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers. Adichie makes 15 suggestions for raising a healthy, happy feminist daughter. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestionsdirect, wryly funny, and perceptivefor how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent. ”'A writer with a great deal to say” - The Times A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. ![]() Available in used condition with free delivery in the UK. ”'The book I'd press into the hands of girls and boys, as an inspiration for a future 'world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves'” - Books of the Year, Independent Buy Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ![]() 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 Your feminist premise should be: I matter. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie urges Ijeawele to remember to transmit to her daughter 'the solid unbending belief that you start off with. ”'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. ![]() When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells you to listen, you listen” - Stylist ![]()
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