Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Title: The Manifesto of a Feminist

Author: Angozi Adishi

Translator: Fatemeh Baghestani

Publisher: Backpack

Subject: Women, social aspects

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 56 pages

Language: Farsi

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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chima Manda Angzi Adishi.

If you are looking to raise a feminist child, this book will answer all the questions you have in mind. Prominent Nigerian author Chima Manda Angzi Adishi has made 15 friendly suggestions to get rid of gender-biased educational thinking in Manifesto of a Feminist. He believes that mothers of the new and innovative generation should raise their children free from common gender stereotypes in society. Fatemeh Baghestani translated Manifesto of a Feminism and Shima Derakhsh read the audio book.

About the book Manifesto of a Feminist by Chima Manda Angzi Adishi
The story of writing The Manifesto of a Feminist began with a letter. A friend of Chima Adishi asked her how she could raise her daughter to be a real feminist. Adishi is very active in the field of women and feminism and has given several lectures on this subject. But he himself did not know exactly how to answer his friend’s question.

She decided to write her answer in the form of a letter to her friend, and the book The Manifesto of a Feminist is the result of her fifteen letters about teaching feminism to children.
What made this book world famous was his fascinating and influential prose in expressing important educational issues and teaching them to children. He has put under the microscope the most important gender issues that are still ignored in the 21st century and has asked mothers to pay special attention to their speech. In this work, he describes the obvious and simple subject from the point of view of a couple.

Get to know feminism a little more
Feminism refers to a set of political, social, and ideological movements formed with the goal of giving women equal opportunities with men in the political, economic, social, and personal spheres. But what is the main goal of the feminist movement? In general, the topics of the feminist movement are patriarchy, gender equality, domestic violence, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, wage equality and reproductive rights.

About Chima Manda Angzi Adishi, author of The Manifesto of a Feminist
Chima Manda Angzi Adishi was born in 1977 to a Nigerian women’s rights activist, speaker, and author. He continued his studies in pharmacy. He received a master’s degree in creative writing and another master’s degree in African studies. He is the author of short stories and non-fiction books and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world. Adishi became famous with her book “Half of a Yellow Sun” in 2007 and won the Women’s Fiction Prize. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and published by reputable publications such as The New Yorker, Granta and The Financial Times.

Another of his works, entitled “Purple Khatami”, won the CIS Writers’ Award. “Americana” won the International Critics’ Award and was named Book of the Year. The storyline “Something Around Your Neck” won the author the MacArthur Critics’ Award.
Translation of a feminist book Manifesto into Persian
Fatemeh Baghestani is a young and prolific Iranian translator. He was born in 1976 in a large family. Baghestani continued his education in the field of language translation and began teaching the language. After a while, she decided to try her luck in translation and entered the field by translating the book “Ten Mistakes of Women That Disrupt their Lives”. Her field of activity in this publication of Avanameh is the book Manifesto of a Feminist, translated by Fatemeh Baghestani, and is available to those who are interested.

Why read a Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions book?
A Feminist Manifesto is in the category of sociology, women, and feminism. This book is a great choice for people who are not familiar with the phenomenon of feminism and are interested in starting their studies in this field. The Manifesto of a Feminist is suitable for teenagers and adults. Shima Derakhsh has been reading the audio book of a feminist manifesto.

بخشی In a part of the book, we read a feminist manifesto
Sometimes mothers become so involved in doing everything that they unknowingly help to reduce the responsibilities of the man of the house. You may think that your husband may not be able to bathe your daughter as he should, or that he may not be able to change her clothes properly. So what? What will happen so badly? Make sure your daughter is in her father’s arms and will not die. The fact is that his father loves him. It is also good for your daughter that her father sometimes takes care of her. So let go of perfectionism and the extreme sense of conscientiousness. Take an equal share in each child’s care. Of course, equal meaning depends on both of you, and you have to agree on it yourself and pay equal attention to each other’s needs.

Introducing the book Manifesto of a Feminist in Fifteen Proposals
Chimamanda Engozi Adishi (1977) is the author of The Manifesto of a Feminist in Fifteen Proposals and is best known for her best-selling novel Half a Yellow Sun. In most of his novels and books, he depicts his childhood in Nigeria and the place of race. According to the Guardian, the successful author won the 2007 Orange Award for his first novel and became very famous. This gifted lady is known as a fearless writer, and in all of her work she challenges any form of racial discrimination, especially gender discrimination. Is Amazon’s best-selling book on general gender studies.

In the introduction to this work, you read: A few years ago, when a childhood friend of mine, now a beautiful and strong lady, asked me how to conceive a little girl as a feminist, the first thing that came to my mind was that I was too. I do not know. I thought it was a difficult question. But I had given many lectures on feminism, and perhaps that was why she asked such a difficult question of me, the so-called expert. In addition, I have many years of experience helping raise the children of friends and family;
I even worked as a babysitter for a while and raised my nieces and nephews myself. I had a lot to see and hear, and I thought about it more than anything. In response to my friend’s suggestion, I decided to write her a letter, hoping that this letter would be honest and practical and that it could serve as a roadmap for effective feminist thinking. This book is a copy of the same letter, but I have changed some of its details …

In another part of the book, we read: “Teach your daughter that things called gender maps are nonsense.” Never tell her she’s supposed to do it or not, because she’s a girl. The phrase “because you are a girl” is never a reason for anything; nothing! I remember when I was a child I was told, “When sweeping, bend over completely to sweep like a housewife.” In other words, sweeping is the job of women. Maybe it would have been better if they had said, “Bend down and sweep properly to clean the house better,” and I wish they had said the same thing to my brothers.
The customary book Manifesto of a Feminist in Fifteen Proposals
The Manifesto of a Feminist in Fifteen Suggestions is another work by Chimamanda Angozi Adishi, author of the best-selling book We All Must Be Feminists. This book contains precise and practical points in explaining the transgender maps of children and sometimes adults.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian woman writer. He became known for his best-selling novel Half a Yellow Sun. In most of his novels and books, Adishi depicts his childhood in Nigeria and the place of race. According to the Guardian, the successful author won the 2007 Orange Award for his first novel and became very famous. “I was born into a large, close-knit, happy family in the university town of Nesuka,” Adishi said in an interview.

I was the first girl; I was the fifth of six children in the family, and after the birth of the first three children, my parents became more intelligent and easy-going. My childhood was spent in happiness and comfort. My family is still very close. My father is a retired math teacher. My mother made history by working as the first female enrollment officer at the university.
None of my siblings are particularly creative. They are all science-loving and sensible people. My parents wanted me to become a doctor, so I studied medicine, but I was very upset, I had to run away. My progress in medicine was very good but I did not care what I was doing. “I wrote poetry in anatomy class.”
This gifted lady is known as a fearless writer and in all her works she challenges any kind of racial discrimination, especially gender discrimination. The book Manifesto of a Feminist in Fifteen Suggestions (Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions) is recommended to all women and mothers.

In a section of The Feminist Manifesto, we read fifteen suggestions:
“Teach your daughter that things called gender maps are nonsense.” Never tell her she’s supposed to do it or not, because she’s a girl. The phrase “because you are a girl” is never a reason for anything; nothing!
I remember when I was a child I was told, “When sweeping, bend over completely to sweep like a housewife.” In other words, sweeping is the job of women. Maybe it would have been better if they had said, “Bend down and sweep properly to clean the house better,” and I wish they had said the same thing to my brothers.

Why should we read this book?
Certainly having a beautiful world in the light of the existence of equality and justice for all human beings. And women, who make up half of the world’s population, must be equal in all their human rights to the other half of the world’s population, men. Achieving this equality has always been a challenge for women throughout history. This book helps women, in addition to recognizing their human rights and trying to achieve this, be able to raise children who are more aware of these issues.
Due to the fact that the book has a simple expression and a human perspective on the issue of women, its reading is recommended for mothers who are concerned about the proper teaching of women’s rights to their children. Also reading this work will be very useful for other women, girls and of course men.

Excerpts from the book
“Do it together.” Remember when we were in elementary school we learned that an action is an act of doing? Well, let me say that the father, like the mother, is a verb. Your husband should do whatever biology allows him to do, and we both know that men’s biology allows anything but childbirth and breastfeeding. Sometimes mothers become so involved in doing all the work that they unknowingly help reduce the responsibilities of the man of the house. You may think that your husband may not be able to bathe your daughter as he should, or that he may not be able to change her clothes properly.

So what? What will happen so badly? Make sure your daughter is in her father’s arms and will not die. The fact is that his father loves him. It is also good for your daughter that her father sometimes takes care of her. So let go of perfectionism and the extreme sense of conscientiousness. Take an equal share in each child’s care. Of course, equal meaning depends on both of you, and you have to agree on it yourself and pay equal attention to each other’s needs.

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