We Should All Be Feminists

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We Should All Be Feminists (2020, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

128 pages

English language

Published July 9, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-838031-1
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4 stars (3 reviews)

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 inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now -- and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

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reviewed We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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1 star

I’m flabbergasted to see so many positive reviews of an unapologetically heteronormative book.

I can understand that people write from their experiences and idiosyncrasies. I can see how many people could have wrote a similar book in the 70s in Europe.

But this was written in 20-fucking-14 and it oozes transphobia and homophobia by the same omission it condemns in sexism. It also reeks of capitalist propaganda about deserving respect for effort, entrepreneurship and money after saying it wouldn't go into class struggle.

I’m really disappointed on people suggesting this is a good introduction to feminism in the 21st century. This is feminism for the 1% from a person that knows her privilege compared to her environment.

reviewed We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

More of an Adaptation of a Speech, but Concise and Appropriate.

5 stars

For a little while now I’ve been wanted to read more feministic literature but I hadn’t gotten round to it till today. I decided that We Should All Be Feminists should the start of my journey through feministic literature. Above all else this book started a desire within me to take up public speaking, to speak for those who have no other means of public communication, to speak to those who otherwise won’t or don’t listen, and most of all, to share, further, and develop ideals that should be globally accepted.

One point in the book that really stood out to me was the mention of the differences between referring to yourself as an egalitarian rather than as a feminist. To quote Adichie, ‘to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that …