You can check out her website here for more on this feminist icon.
It’s also a nice short text to review anytime you are feeling beaten down by the patriarchy. The inspiration I gain after reading (and re-reading) those 52 pages is limitless, and beautiful, and makes me want to do crazy things like open a bookstore and save the world. We worry about hurting men's feelings more so that engaging in dialogue with them. This leads into her larger thoughts on social language, or how we talk about things differently when it involves women versus men, even in the same situations.Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie is sounding the call, and reminding us that there is quite a bit of work left to be done. To me, it has always had an air of chaos, where neither the man nor woman in the situation would want to relay harm, but both are entangled in some sort of figurative form of combat. Michelle Obama recently said something similar: "It's like the problem in the world today is we love our boys, and we raise our girls.")Īdichie stole my heart when she said that we should do away with the word emasculation. She talks about changing the culture around the way we shame girls and how we need to place equal attention on raising feminist boys. We Should All Be Feminists is a true embodiment of my goals as a woman, and as an ally to other women. There are fantasy novels and stories of womens survival.
What I loved most about this book is the idea that saving the world will start with saving women. It would be impossible to compile all the books written by and for feminists in one list.
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