In September 2016, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first female creative director in the 70-year history of the fashion house Dior, at her premiere show for the brand featured a T-shirt bearing the statement: “We Should All Be Feminists”.

They “hope that teachers will integrate We Should All Be Feminists into their teaching, and will be distributing discussion guidelines to help”. The effort is supported by the UN Association of Sweden, the Swedish Trade Union Conferation, the Order of the Teaspoon, Unizon and Gertrud Åström. In December 2015, the Swedish Women’s Lobby and publisher Albert Bonniers revealed the book is to be distributed to every 16-year-old high school student in Sweden, with the intention that it will “work as a stepping stone for a discussion about gender equality and feminism”. The Independent selected it as a book of the year, for it “would be the book I’d press into the hands of girls and boys, as an inspiration for a future ‘world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves'”. Rupert Hawksley said: “it just might be the most important book you read all year” in The Telegraph. The book received overwhelmingly positive reviews. She argues that “feminist” isn’t an insult, but rather a label that should be embraced by all. We Should All Be Feminists dishes out ideas and critically analyses what it means to be a feminist. The essay was adapted from Adichie’s 2012 TEDx talk of the same name, first delivered at TEDx Euston in London, which has been viewed more than five million times.

We Should All Be Feminists was first published in 2014 by Fourth Estate, it aims to give a definition of feminism for the 21st Century. Get more than one if you have to and share with friends and loved ones. If you do not own this little yet insightful book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, then I suggest you get a copy as soon as possible.

I called this a mini-review because talking about this book in its totality would be to give all of its content away and I don’t want to do that.

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