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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There's nothing here that's mind boggling, but it is a good beginning text for people who want to learn to incorporate more feminist teachings into their parenting skills and/or life.
If I'm being super honest, I really just want Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to start writing novels once again. Her feminist essays come across as tepid with no real depth opposed to her novels, which present a much more in-depth picture of her subject and the Nigerian culture by using a more focused approach than just listing off the general "do's and don'ts" of feminism. In short, to me, Adichie's essays on feminism seem generic and forced after that Beyoncé shoutout she got in 2013.
For the most part, I've heard everything she's saying before and dare I say it, heard it said better by feminist scholars who have come before her and who have studied feminist theory as their life's work opposed to Adichie who seems to write her essays as an afterthought and just seems to be dabbling in it now because of the shoutout from Bey. smh These essays feel trendy, but I almost feel like they're feminist lite opposed to the popular opinion that they're God's gift to feminist theory. Don't get me wrong, I'll always support Adichie in her writing endeavors, but her feminist essays are becoming a bit redundant.
If I'm being super honest, I really just want Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to start writing novels once again. Her feminist essays come across as tepid with no real depth opposed to her novels, which present a much more in-depth picture of her subject and the Nigerian culture by using a more focused approach than just listing off the general "do's and don'ts" of feminism. In short, to me, Adichie's essays on feminism seem generic and forced after that Beyoncé shoutout she got in 2013.
For the most part, I've heard everything she's saying before and dare I say it, heard it said better by feminist scholars who have come before her and who have studied feminist theory as their life's work opposed to Adichie who seems to write her essays as an afterthought and just seems to be dabbling in it now because of the shoutout from Bey. smh These essays feel trendy, but I almost feel like they're feminist lite opposed to the popular opinion that they're God's gift to feminist theory. Don't get me wrong, I'll always support Adichie in her writing endeavors, but her feminist essays are becoming a bit redundant.