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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: You should be a whole person, defined by much more than motherhood.
Chapter 3: Committed parents raising a daughter together must reject rigid gendered social norms.
Chapter 4: Gender roles are absurdly restrictive and should be rejected.
Chapter 5: Feminism Lite is merely a subtler, watered-down expression of misogyny.
Chapter 6: You must interrogate language, and teach your daughter to do the same.
Chapter 7: We must teach our daughters not to overvalue romantic love and marriage.
Chapter 8: Your daughter needs encouragement to develop a strong sense of self and identity.
Chapter 9: Engagement with a girl’s appearance should always be thoughtful and careful.
Chapter 10: From early on, girls need tools to understand and speak openly about sex and love.
Chapter 11: Your daughter must see difference as normal, without romanticizing the oppressed.
Description
Dear Ijeawele (2017) is a series of suggestions for raising young girls to be strong, independent women. A few years ago, a childhood friend of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie asked her advice on a very important topic – how to raise her daughter to be a feminist. Her friend was called Ijeawele, and this book is the author’s response.
Who Should Listen
- Feminists
- Parents of daughters
- Men looking for insight into what it’s like to grow up as a girl