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swordsandthings 's review for:
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is my first Adichie, and it will most definitely not be my last.
Her writing style is beautiful and I adore the way she weaves together her own personal tales, the stories of others, the expectations placed on her because of her gender, and her ideas on feminism. She brings up the important fact that gender roles negatively affect not just women, but men as well. The differences between feminism in Nigeria and America were also enlightening. I related so strongly with many of the things that were said in this book and she is right when she said, “the problem with gender is that it 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.”
I do feel as though the essay fell into the trappings of the gender binary at times and the ideas regarding feminism were not new to me, but this is still a profound and important book that I believe everyone should be required to read and discuss.
Her writing style is beautiful and I adore the way she weaves together her own personal tales, the stories of others, the expectations placed on her because of her gender, and her ideas on feminism. She brings up the important fact that gender roles negatively affect not just women, but men as well. The differences between feminism in Nigeria and America were also enlightening. I related so strongly with many of the things that were said in this book and she is right when she said, “the problem with gender is that it 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.”
I do feel as though the essay fell into the trappings of the gender binary at times and the ideas regarding feminism were not new to me, but this is still a profound and important book that I believe everyone should be required to read and discuss.