Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Description:

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,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2017-03-26,  New York Times bestseller,  Women, social conditions,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Essays,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies,  Nonfiction,  Politics,  Sociology,  Femininity,  Comparative literature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  African literature,  Interdisciplinary studies,  race and ethnic studies,  women's and gender studies,  introduction to gender studies,  Introduction to Women's Studies,  race/class/gender,  gender studies,  Girls,  Conduct of life,  Fe minisme,  The orie fe ministe,  E ducation des enfants,  Aspect social,  Me res et filles,  Filles,  Morale pratique,  Femmes,  Conditions sociales,  Parents,  Influence,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Feminism & Feminist Theory,  M©Þdchen,  Erziehung,  Feminismus,  Sex differences (Psychology),  Feminists,  Biography,  Nigerian Authors

People: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-),  Ijeawele

Places: Nigeria

Times: 2017