Nous sommes tous des féministes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But what made de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex groundbreaking was its exploration of gender identity. No stranger to controversy, de Beauvoir was known for her independence, and although partnered with philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, she never married or lived with him, and she made no secret of her lesbian love affairs. Given that France had only granted women the right to vote five years prior to publication, there was plenty to back de Beauvoir’s assertions and she was singularly fearless about speaking out.

In it, Simone de Beauvoir used historical examples to demonstrate how society evolved to turn women into second-class citizens.

This International Women's Day, Vogue spotlights five feminist books from authors who have given a voice to women and spurred the fight for equality.įive feminist books on female empowerment: The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirĪ scathing attack on the status quo, The Second Sex became an instant and controversial bestseller when it was published in 1949. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.“ Well behaved women rarely make history,” said historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.Ī recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.

Nous sommes tous des féministes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie