Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions vs We Should All Be Feminists: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2017 ★★★★★ 4.5 73 pages · ≈ 1 h 21 m · Moderate

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…

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Cover of We Should All Be Feminists We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014 ★★★★☆ 4.4 64 pages · ≈ 1 h 11 m · Moderate

In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in…

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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen SuggestionsWe Should All Be Feminists
Goodreads 4.5 (90144) 4.4 (340340)
Hardcover — 4.3 (647)
Google Books — 4.5 (3)
Apple Books 5.0 (180) 4.5 (642)

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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen SuggestionsWe Should All Be Feminists
Ratings 90144 340340
Editions 20 21
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 85951 —
Reading it now 1447 —
Written reviews 10980 —
Wikipedia attention 372 1296
Pages 73 64

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