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I've considered myself a feminist for quite a while now. Unfortunately society frowns upon the term feminist and what it stands for. Although many people who are against that term do not fully understand what it means to be a feminist. This book describes what feminism is in a way that I wish I could when people question my choice to be a feminist.
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I think this would have been better if I had see the TedTalk rather than read it. Adichie shares some experiences that were mostly fairly common to a lot of women across the world as well as some examples of how women are still considered second class citizen in many parts of Africa, but I didn't really feel like she expanded her ideas into anything new or really made her point that "we should all be feminists." I guess since it was a book I expected more of a thesis with evidence type structure
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You can read this in one sitting, and you should. A TED talk that was put in narrative form - Adichie was very honest in her observations of how women, particularly in Africa, are still second class citizens, and why things need to change. I loved her no nonsense, logical approach to this topic.
Adapted from a TEDx Talk. Short but thought provoking.
“The problem with gender is that it was prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
Sep 06, 2015
Becky
marked it as to-read
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Melliecup
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