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    Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions

    Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Narrated by January LaVoy

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9780008241025
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    Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions
    Author

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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    • 4/5
      Difference is normal. Teach her not to universalize her standards and experiences, teach her her standards are hers and hers alone. Brilliant offering as always!
    • 5/5
      A must read for all parents with girls. For anyone who interacts with women, young or old. A must read for everyone!
    • 5/5
      What it takes to raise a daughter to be strong, curious, restpectful and expecting respect. To teach her self-sufficiency. To never place too much importance on virginity or marriage or finding a man. To make choices based on what she wants, rather than on what girls are typically told to want. If it’s marriage, wonderful. If it’s not, wonderful. I will listen to this recording again and again.
    • 5/5
      ?THE ?ABSOLUTE ?BEST ?ESSAY?ON ? FEMINISM??. I am of course biased in this review because I absolutely adore Chimamanda and especially love the way she sees the world.

      However, she unpacks and demystifies the sometimes very jargony and ambiguous concept of feminism. A must read for all!!

      I actually used this audiobook as a read aloud book as part of our homeschool and went on to have very interesting conversations on feminism, gender, racism, colourism and the black lives matter movement with my 12 and 8 year Olds!!
    • 5/5
      So enlightening! The suggestions made me reevaluate my own beliefs and my own feminist journey.
    • 5/5
      I just learned a term in this book, feminism light (conditional feminism). This book is challenging the norms and I believe it’s a relevant book to read and have for all males and females. It’s an amazing book that really leads you to introspective thinking on how you were brought up, how gender roles have affected your life and how they shape society today. Sexism is a real issue (that we tend to ignore because of patriarchial society) and should also be addressed and confronted as much if not more than Racism. THIS BOOK SHOULD BE PART OF SCHOOL SYLLABUS AND CREATE DIALOGUE FOR KIDS IN ORDER TO LEARN HOW TO TREAT ONE ANOTHER. I have always said that TOXIC AFRICAN CULTURAL PRACTICES ARE PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION BY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO DON’T KNOW ANY-BETTER AND THOSE WHO LEARNED THIS TOXICITY FROM THEIR OWN PARENTS. THEY SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH SAID BEHAVIOR BECAUSE THEY INHERITED IT FROM THEIR PARENTS THEREFORE IT HAS TO BE RIGHT! Things need to change, things can’t stay the same. These ideas ? I feel can be implemented but they will need us to be conscious in our efforts to make them a part of our lives daily and to pass them on to the next generation. Together we can create a world where equality is not just an aspiration but a part of everyday life.
    • 5/5
      The reading is brilliant. It's easily digestible. Beautifully written and I listened more than once.
    • 5/5
      This was amazing and so well written. I love how all the ideas were so clearly expressed through examples and in such respectful way.
    • 5/5
      My heart is so full after reading this, I highly recommend it!
    • 5/5
      Yet another masterpiece by Adichie! This book is everything I aspire to be!
    • 5/5
      It’s a gentle reminder to every Woman to become human!
      Thank you Adichie for the nudge.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this letter because it's something I wish I had received when I gave birth because I have every intention of raising my child as a feminist.
      Thank you, marvelous lady, for putting together a well-thought guide on how to be a better person. We do have to make conscious efforts to apply all the suggestions in the book, and when I say us, I mean the society in its entirety. We have to get rid of the toxic norms and cliches we were raised in and start embracing healthy life principles.
    • 5/5
      Is there a 10 out of 5 star rating??!! This is such a necessary read! I cannot stress enough. Waiting for more of these from Adichie.
    • 5/5
      A beautiful approach at making helping a parent guide a child male or female in a rapidly changing world
    • 5/5
      Amazing book. The female voice added much more value to the book.
    • 5/5
      I loved it, I wished for the sake of the Igbo words, an Igbo person read it. The pronounciations weren't perfect but still okay.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. It has a lots of reality about to life. I recommend it to all
    • 5/5
      this book is really something!!!! this book is supeeer!, this book really shift my thinking, it is inspiring really!
    • 5/5
      Though there were places, like really minimal places where I couldn't completely agree with the author, she blew me away with really thoughtful statements. This is a book everyone should read. When you complete it, you will bid goodbye to a friend, who you look forward to meet soon.
    • 4/5
      A decaying city wrought with crime is revived by a strange, orca-riding visitor
    • 5/5
      Amazing! I can’t wait to put this into practice when my partner and I have babies ? I will also be sure to remember these when faced with other little ones
    • 5/5
      So good I want the whole world to listen to this! ?
    • 4/5
      In this expanded letter, the author presents views I see as pure basics. They can be considered life-changing and groundbreaking for persons immersed in patriarchy, I understand, and agree with most opinions presented, yet I have failed to learn something new from this. This guide of sorts teaches lessons already learned by most contemporary feminists and I would like to have found out the authors views on some topics I find more urgent in the second and third decades of the 21st century. Still, I do believe it can serve as a useful tool to women and men embarking on the feminist journey.
    • 5/5
      I agree with everything she said, it is so good to feel that someone with so many readers and listeners think the sane way I do.
    • 5/5
      This is just absolutely beautiful! If I had any quibble, it would be that somewhere in it should be the line that boys should be brought up this way, too.I see that some reviews have complained that this says nothing new. Well, no. We still face the same old problems. This is a short, accessable 'manifesto' for trying to do something for the next generation. This kind of parenting advice could be revolutionary if enough parents read it.
    • 2/5
      There is nothing earth shattering here and much of the good advice is general, not particularly feminist. The author obviously brings an interesting perspective as a Nigerian woman, but makes a lot of unproven assumptions about the world and often says "we do this" and "we do that", when in fact that is not the case. Well-written because she's a good writer.
    • 5/5
      Essential reading for everyone. The narration was spot on, with emphasis on words and sentiments that required it. I loved it! ❤
    • 4/5
      Chimamanda's newest essay/letter/book could be titled The 15 Commandments of Feminist Motherhood. It has its purpose, but it is a primer only. If you are deep in the feminist movement, you've heard these arguments before.
    • 5/5
      The audiobook for this short tome is only an hour and a half long – the perfect length for one of my long run workouts. I don’t know about other runners/walkers, but the time for me is one of contemplation, as a distraction from focusing on my allergy induced wheezing and agonizing over how much my muscles hurt. Running through Valley Forge helps me focus on my thoughts and nature, and what I’m listening to while doing so.

      As I listened to Dear Ijeawele, I considered the following: Both my sister-in-law and a close friend are expecting their first children in October and I have lately been contemplating what type of aunt/quasi-aunt I want to be. My husband has a younger sister who is 9 years old and I find myself reflecting on the sort of example I set for her when she was a very small child. Did I encourage her to be herself? Did I ever unwittingly tell her that she could or couldn’t do something simply because she was a girl? Is her present obsession with pink something she truly enjoys, or does she love pink and princesses because we as a society have conditioned her to? Did she want to wear her Converse high-tops as flower girl in my wedding because I thought it’d be cool, or because she did? How much did I influence her versus how many decisions did she make on her own?

      The more I thought about it, the more worked up I got. I felt like I hadn’t followed any of Adichie’s suggestions, not that I was/am responsible for how my younger sister-in-law lives her 3rd grade life, but I want to be a positive, feminist influence on her life. And then I realized, yes, language matters, and yes, the relationships that young children witness matter, but no, not every woman has to have the same definition of feminism. So long as girls and women have choices, and those choices should be the same as men’s, they can live their lives however they want. My definition of feminism is not my mother’s definition, or even the same as my sister’s definition. My definition of feminism is to be my own person, and so long as that is what I strive to show the young children in my life, then I believe I have embodied the spirit of Adichie’s suggestions, even if I haven’t followed them letter for letter, word for word.

      So learn from me, read or listen for a new and unique perspective, but do not take Dear Ijeawele as feminism gospel. Interpret Adichie’s suggestions for yourself, your family, and those young girls in your life and simply embrace the idea that everyone should have the choice and freedom to be whoever they wish to be.
    • 5/5
      Such an amazing little book. So many powerful sentiments in so few pages. I loved it.