We Should All Be Feminists
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
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Love, love, love!!!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great read - horrible performance
- By Denise Johnson on 03-26-15
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but please have an actual African read it
- By Steven A. on 05-21-18
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turns her penetrating eye on America in 12 dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
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Haunting—But In a Good Way
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Purple Hibiscus
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156
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In Purple Hibiscus, she recounts the story of a young Nigerian girl searching for freedom. Although her father is greatly respected within their community, 15-year-old Kambili knows a frighteningly strict and abusive side to this man. In many ways, she and her family lead a privileged life, but Kambili and her brother, Jaja, are often punished for failing to meet their father’s expectations. After visiting her aunt and cousins, Kambili dreams of being part of a loving family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Could improve sound quality
- By Brisa A. on 03-14-15
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 676
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Story5 out of 5 stars 584
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, love, love!!!
- By Tee-Woomie on 04-21-17
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Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,612
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,675
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,650
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dazzling, Romantic, and Witty
- By Anna-Bo-Banana on 04-28-14
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Men Explain Things to Me
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,061
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,046
In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great read - horrible performance
- By Denise Johnson on 03-26-15
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 633
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 582
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 572
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but please have an actual African read it
- By Steven A. on 05-21-18
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 175
In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turns her penetrating eye on America in 12 dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting—But In a Good Way
- By Llayla on 09-09-18
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Purple Hibiscus
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,049
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5 out of 5 stars
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Could improve sound quality
- By Brisa A. on 03-14-15
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Feminism Is for Everybody
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- By: bell hooks
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What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Introduction to Feminism
- By Listens-a-lot on 03-29-18
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Between the World and Me
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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"This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race", a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
- By T Spencer on 07-30-15
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Ain't I a Woman
- Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this work a critical place in every feminist scholar's library.
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Required reading
- By kane walsh on 05-01-19
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Eloquent Rage
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So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that.
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🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Eloquent AF
- By Erica on 03-05-18
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Living a Feminist Life
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In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique - often by naming and calling attention to problems - and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A great book ruined by the narrator
- By Gilda Rodriguez on 09-05-17
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White Fragility
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In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to "bad people" (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent meaningful cross-racial dialogue.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Noble but flawed attempt to deal with racism
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North.
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We Must Always Remember
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The Feminine Mystique
- By: Betty Friedan
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The book that changed the consciousness of a country - and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic - these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name", that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A landmark book of its time and relevant now
- By Anthony on 01-23-15
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not an Historical Account
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Nonchalant comments about animal abuse
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In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes listeners through a widening circle of antiracist ideas - from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites - that will help listeners see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyed the content.
- By J. Knight on 08-26-19
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Talking to Strangers
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- By: Malcolm Gladwell
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By GMbienlire on 10-26-19
Publisher's Summary
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times best seller - a personal, eloquently-argued essay, adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name - from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah. Here she offers listeners a unique definition of feminism for the 21st century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now - and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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- Joe Zaniker
- 06-01-17
compelling
I've never really heard feminism described this way, and she does such a beautiful job of explaining it in a way that I think does not make Men wrong, and certainly made it easier for me to understand what women go through and the privilege I have simply because I'm a man.
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- Ijeoma
- 12-10-17
An Extraordinary Book about Gender Inequality
This book is truly great! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie raises lots of substantial points about gender inequality and backs it up with great examples from Nigeria and America. She makes her point effectively: the time to act is now. I highly recommend it to all.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-18-19
every word spoke to me
Too short but so beautiful.
For some reason the sound seemed much lower on this recording than typical for Audible.
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- Melissa
- 05-02-17
For those who are new to feminism...
This is the right book for you! For those well-read feminists out here, the points are somewhat simplistic and this 45 minute essay doesn't provide a lot of new content to the field. Very well written and delivered but really for people who want to understand the basic concepts and need for feminism.
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- Ifaré Nass
- 02-12-20
A short but teaching read
Loved it. Her ability to paint narrative for the opposite sex is gracious. I loved how she reminds the reader that both men & women had work to do when it comes to achieving equality and being proper feminist
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-10-20
Excellence defined
I now have a different perspective on what a feminist is. I enjoyer this very much so and looking forward to the presentation to my English class
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- lastarza
- 01-31-20
loved this book
this book really opened my eyes to the fact that I've been a feminist for years and I love it
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- DD
- 01-21-20
WE means men and women
This is an insightful quick listen/read for everyone. An interesting perspective from an intelligent author about the meaning of feminism. She provides some very good suggestions about how we can help our children, too. Well worth a listen.
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- ASD
- 01-08-20
Not what i expected
This book was recommended to me by a member of a book club I’m in. I was skeptical about it thinking it would be a rant about women’s rights filled with vitriol and anger like so many women’s rights books. It was nothing like that and I am so glad I got it. I’ve never thought of myself as a Feminist but from Chimamanda’s viewpoint she the blew the stereotypical definition out of the water. In her eyes I am a feminist.
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- Jodi-Anne
- 01-03-20
Absolutely amazing
Highly recommend to men and women! We should all be feminist and that’s the simple truth!