WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS                        BOOK REVIEW

The book is originally supposed to be a TedTalk by the author herself, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the TedTalk is apparently more engaging.

   

The book really is more of an essay, and one really good thing about the book was that it was not preachy. It  doesn't preach you about feminism or preach you as to why we should all be feminists. Now, preaching like that would've been boring!

What the author has done instead is that, she has recounted experiences from her own life and through these she has tried to point out the sexism, sometimes even stereotype, and so on. I really loved her way of approach. I loved how she recounted her life experiences and how using those, she drew inferences and conclusions. I felt that just made whatever she was trying to say over three times more effective!

I also really liked how the author talked about the fact that feminism is not just about women, but men as well. She also touched on how men are also subject to oppression in a lot of ways and that was really nice!

We also hear a lot of people say that in today's era, women have achieved equality... that women are equal to men on almost all platforms and women are no longer being put down. Adichie addresses this issue as well and she has done a great job in it! She points out how even today, in a lot of platforms women are still lagging behind and so many women are still being deprived of equality. Surely, we have come a long way, but we still have a very long way to go!

Coming to my personal opinion reading the book... Well, I am a feminist myself and I have always strongly believed in feminism. I think that's kind of why most of the concepts that the author spoke of were those that I already knew and believed in. So there weren't a lot of new things for me in the book. I felt that the book should be more suitable for people who are still new to the concept of feminism, or people who know very little about feminism. If you are a feminist like me or if you already know enough about feminism, then the book should mostly be only the stuff you already know. I guess that's why I felt the book would have been more impacting had it delved into the deeper aspects of feminism. The book really would've been more effective that way.

I gave the book 3 stars out of 5. I would have given it more stars if it would have gone into the deeper aspects of feminism, but that was not there so I gave it three stars. Like I said, I would recommend this book to people who are still new to the concept of feminism, or don't really know much about feminism. I would also recommend this to beginners, because the book is really very small (around 60 pages; makes for a very quick read) and it's very easy to get along as well.

Title: We Should All Be Feminists

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Published: 2014

Genre: Essay; Biography

Pages: 60