5/18/2023 0 Comments Chimamanda feminist manifesto![]() ![]() Girls and boys should be allowed to play with whatever toys they choose. This stuck out to me because I wish that society wouldn’t try and force girls and boys to play with toys based on their gender. The little girl was upset and said that she didn’t want another doll. The little girl told her mother that she wanted a toy helicopter and her mother said that she should get a doll instead. Another thing that struck me from this section was the story that Adichie told about going to the mall with a seven year-old Nigerian girl and her mother. I loved this suggestion because I get sick and tired of always hearing “men should do this and women should do that.” It’s annoying and outdated. I loved the third suggestion which was to teach the daughter that the idea of “gender roles” is absolute nonsense. ![]() I will talk about my 3 favorite suggestions. Adichie gives Ijeawele fifteen suggestions. This book reads as a letter to Adichie’s childhood friend, Ijeawele, who recently had a daughter, and she wanted advice on how to raise her daughter as a feminist. Adichie first rose to prominence via the feminist spectrum after a clip of her Ted Talk was sampled in Beyonce’s 2013 song “***Flawless”. I had a hard time trying to narrow down what to discuss from Chimamanda Adichie’s new book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. This was because there were so many profound and wonderful points that Adichie made about how society treats women and feminism. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |