Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

<b><br>From the best-selling author of <i>Americanah </i>and <i>We Should All Be Feminists</i> comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. </b><br><br>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. <i>Dear Ijeawele </i>is Adichie's letter of response.<br> Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can &quot;allow&quot; women to have full careers, <i>Dear Ijeawele</i> goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.