What does it mean to be a woman in 2018? What do you hope is different for the women in your family in 50 years’ time? If you could change one thing about how society views the feminist movement, what would it be?
How do you raise a child to be a feminist?
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngzoi Adichie offers fifteen compelling, direct and perceptive suggestions to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman.
Together they start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
y’ Roxane Gay
Back in October, 4th Estate hosted a meeting of two brilliant, whip-smart and erratic minds, Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran, in a sell out event at London’s Southbank Centre.
Today sees the release of We Should All Be Feminists, the captivating, forthright and truly inspirational essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.
‘…an academic, a Nigerian woman, told me that feminism was not our culture, that feminism was un-African, and I was only calling myself a feminist because I had been influenced by Western books. (Which amused me, because much of my early reading was decidedly unfeminist: I must have read every single Mills & Boon romance published before I was sixteen. And each time I try to read those books called ‘classic feminist texts’, I get bored, and I struggle to finish them.) Read more…
While our summer certainly feels like it’s over (or at least dwindling rapidly…), Lena Dunham’s is not. The actor, director, producer AND writer of the upcoming Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned has instagrammed her summer reading list – a nice collation of book porn to keep us going through this British autumnal blip. Read more…
On 30th April around one hundred people gathered at The Book Club for the first ever 4th Estate Literary Salon. With the aim of bringing together great minds and great conversation the Salon’s inaugural event saw Hadley Freeman, author of Be Awesome, join Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, founders of The Vagenda, in a lively debate that was chaired by fellow commentator and Guardian columnist Rebecca Nicholson. Read more…
