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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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margotgabriella's review against another edition

5.0

Even though my perspective on feminism is already quite broad since i did a schoolproject about it last year, i learned so much about how the african culture deals with feminism. The way she describs her experience is incredible. And i'll never forget how positive but still acussing it was written. #HappyEuropeanFeministWhoDoesn'tHateMenAndLikesToWearLipglossAndHighHeelsJustForHerselfAndNotForTheMenAroundHer

reading_jam's review against another edition

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informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

eileenthecrow's review against another edition

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3.0

I love her ideas and I love her. However, most of this talk didn't propose anything new and therefore left me a bit disappointed. I swear I made a similar presentation during my first year of uni, the very title of this book was my closing argument which was a big deal for my professor at the time so he kept pointing at me and calling me the feminist of the class. It was frustrating, he would talk about feminism, he would look at me and announce to the class, "I'm sorry, Ekin, you are a feminist so I'm looking at you." Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that reading this felt like an introduction to her ideas so the whole time I wished the snippets were longer because I kept thinking, "Okay but I heard this all before. Let's go deeper." But since it's a TED Talk, I can understand that.

(This text did exclude trans and gay women which is something that has always been a problem for me when I read stuff like this.)

There were some GREAT quotes in this, though. Just wonderful. Especially the very last part of the talk was brilliant and like I said, I just wanted more.