NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.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. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.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. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year
Popular Reviews(1)
Adichie gibt einer guten Freundin Ratschläge, wie sie ihre Tochter feministische erziehen kann und schafft es in einer klaren, leicht verständlichen und doch eindrücklichen Sprache die wichtigsten Grundlagen eines inklusiven feministischen Mindsets zusammenzufassen. Dabei schweift sie nicht ins Theoretische ab, sondern bleibt praktisch und lebensnah. Einige Punkte beziehen sich konkret auf die Erziehung von Mädchen, viele würde ich aber für universell gültig und daher relevant für die Erziehung aller Kinder unabhängig vom Geschlecht ansehen, wie z. B.: "She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world, and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect." Ich bin mir sicher, wenn alle Menschen dies verinnerlicht hätten, würden wir in einer friedlicheren Welt leben! Es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall, dieses Buch zu lesen; trotz der Kürze bietet es reichlich Stoff zum Nachdenken und hat durchaus Diskussionspotential.