Dieses Büchlein ist im Prinzip eine Rede, die Adichie 2012 an einem TEDx talk in Nigeria hielt. Sie argumentiert hier sehr direkt und schlüssig. Ohne zu lamentieren oder die Schuld bei einer bestimmten Gruppe zu suchen, nennt sie die Gesellschaft als Ganzes den Schuldigen an den Misständen zwischen den Geschlechtern. Erfrischend direkt und klar zeigt sie anhand von eigenen Erfahrungen in der Welt im Allgemeinen und Nigeria im Besonderen was falsch an der anerzogenen Rollenverteilung ist. Bei ein, zwei Punkten bin ich nicht ganz derselben Meinung, da sie meines Erachtens den Gedanken nicht ganz zu Ende führt. Aber ein gutes Buch, das knapp und klar zusammenfasst, um was es in der Debatte eigentlich gehen sollte.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies words are so poignant and powerful - I highly reccomend this book to everyone! It's short and gets to the heart of the problem with gender, that we are still facing. If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem ‘natural’ that only men should be heads of corporations. It piants a clear picture what excatly is going wrong with the way gender functions today and how all of us can change that. We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. We Should All Be Feminists is the raised finger, it's not a guide on how to take action and can't aspire to do that, it's way too short to do that. It's a nice way to spread awareness. Make sure to read it, make sure your friends read it too!

Ich finde es schwierig dieses Buch zu bewerten, da es einerseits eine sehr binäre Sicht auf Feminismus zeigt und Trans-Frauen ausgrenzt, aber andererseits auch wichtige Punkte anspricht, die ein großes Problem darstellen. Frauen (ich zähle da alle Personen dazu, die sich auch als Frau identifizieren), werden immer noch zb im Job benachteiligt durch die Gender Pay Gap. Trotzdem ist es für mich schwierig zu sagen, dass dies ein gutes Buch ist, da ich CNA, die als TERF bekannt ist, nicht unterstützen kann.

Es handelt sich um die verschriftlichte Rede des TED-Talks von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Die Beweggründe des Feminismus werden in einfacher Sprache (englisch) erläutert und die daraus resultierenden Probleme aufgezeigt. Meiner Meinung nach handelt es sich um eine super Einstiegslektüre, da sie super schnell zu lesen ist und komplexe Themen greifbar macht. Wie in andere Rezensionen erwähnt handelt es sich bei CNA um eine TERF, eine Feministin, die nur binäre cisgender anerkennt und Transfrauen exkludiert. Inwieweit das die Qualität dieses schriftlichen Talks beeinflusst, muss jede/r selbst entscheiden

✦✦✦✦ well-written and an easy book to make yourself remember, why we need feminism. yet i believe that LGBTQ+-rights and values are strongly linked to the feminist movement and the fight for equality should not stop at a binary perception of gender. i understand, that this book is not about LGBTQ+-rights, however, i would have liked this essay to have mentioned this important connection to feminism.

read my full review here: http://isabellsbooks.blogspot.de/ Everybody should read this book. Honestly. It's only 64 pages long, so you can read through it in under an hour - and everyone should take that time to read and remember what is written in this important book. I wanted to take a picture of nearly every sentence in this book and post it on Instagram - show it to the world. I am in deep awe of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author, because she has created one of the most important works in my opinion. If everyone would read this small book, the world would be a better place. It is not only incredibly important but also very well written. One can read through it quite nicely and easily but the words are chosen so perfectly that you won't forget them too fast. Because Adichie's writing style appealed so much to me, I am very excited to read more books from her. I really enjoyed that the author talked so much about her Nigerian experience since a great friend of mine comes from Nigeria aswell. It was very interesting to read about Nigerian ways and its culture. I definitely want to reread this from time to time because it's not only a great reminder of why Feminism is so important but it's also a huge empowerement for Activism against injustices in general. I loved how clear and direct this book was. There was never anything left unclear but everything was written so sharply and unmistakably. CONCLUSION Everyone should be forced to read this book. It already feels like a must-read and a true classic. Nearly every sentence should be displayed everywhere. I want to applaud the author for writing such an important and great book.

If you have only thirty minutes of time left, then listen to the author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, reading her essay here for free. Whether you are a feminist or not, whether you are male or female, you won't regret listening to this, regardless of what your current view on the much-debated topic of feminism is like. Either she will open your eyes to some aspects you never thought about before, or she will convince you of your already established opinion. However it turns out for you, in my opinion, Chimamanda is an amazing person who deserves all the attention for what she put into words with her nonfictional essay on feminism. In our modern culture, the word feminism is always associated with a negative concept, and I don't blame anyone for this - not as long as some German politicians want to equalize the female amount of little traffic light men because they feel like gender equality should be visible at traffic lights. Shouldn't it be more important to focus on equal opportunities at work, on the (sadly) still existing way women are looked at as something less in a lot of countries? Apparently not, if you look at what some politicians say nowadays. In her essay, Chimamanda talks about how, especially in Nigeria, but also in a lot of other countries, young men are taught how they need to be "hard men", how they need to be physically strong and take over a leading role in order to take care of the "weaker" women. And she criticizes exactly this - with good reason. Recently a young woman was gang raped in a university in Nigeria. And the response of many young Nigerians, both male and female, was something along the lines of this: "Yes, rape is wrong. But what is a girl doing in a room with four boys?" Now if we can forget the horrible inhumanity of that response, these Nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty, and have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings without any control is somehow acceptable. We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something. I can only talk about my own experience now as a young man about how it is in Germany, but what I had to learn so far was this: A lot of people have no idea of what the concept of feminism truly means, they think of it as something some weirdly-brained writers of bad self-help books must have invented in order to torture humans with their implausible beliefs. And this is something that angers me, because not only do some men find pleasure in treating women like shit, some women also encourage them to do so. But inspite of that, this is no excuse for rape. Nothing can excuse something as horrible as rape, something that should never be wished upon any person. Never ever. I am angry about this. I am angry about the fact that if you refer to "Studenten" (German for "students") instead of "Studentinnen und Studenten" (German for "female and male students"), you will immediately be verbally attacked because you downgraded women, but if you treat women like garbage, you will be praised as the ultimate male hero everyone else has to look up to. I am angry that in order to be looked at as a "man", you have to raise yourself up from women - otherwise there will always be people who start laughing when you call yourself a man and who are going to say that someone like you could only be a "kiddie". Or at least that's what society tends to make us believe. Chimamanda also mentioned that a lot of people argue how female apes bow down to male apes, and after all, apes are our relatives, right? Her answer to this, simple and humorous alike: "But the point is, we're not apes. Apes also live on trees and have earth worms for breakfast, but we don't." And she couldn't be more correct about this. After all, men are human just the way women are human, except for the obvious biological differences, and if you put this into a simple mathematical equation, it would be something along the lines of this: men = human women = human Thus, the following must apply as well: men = women (See? Sometimes maths is good for something after all!) More people need to read this book. More women, but also more men, because the term "feminist" doesn't mean that you need to be a woman in order to be a feminist. It is sad to see how only a handful of male Goodreads users have read this book, even though Chimamanda doesn't only talk about how women need to fight for their rights, she also talks about how men need to learn to accept women as equal. This essay should definitely be required reading in school. You can't learn the lessons Chimamanda teaches in her text early enough. Even more importantly, she doesn't say that you need to be a feminist (even though the title implies so). No, she talks to you about the situation in Nigeria and other countries, and she makes you think about it and allows you to form your own opinion. And that's what I truly respect her for. You are a feminist? Fine, then you might still learn something from this essay. You are no feminist? Good, that's even more of a reason for you to click on that link on top of my review.

First of all, dieses Buch ist ein MUST READ für Jeden! Egal, ob Mann oder Frau! Es ist ein wunderbares Buch, das dem Leser die Definition von Feminismus im 21. Jahrhundert näher bringt. "𝙵𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝: 𝙰 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕, 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚡𝚎𝚜." In diesem Buch erzählt die Autorin jungen Menschen von Erlebnissen aus ihrer eigenen Kindheit und Jugend in Nigeria und später in den USA. Sie zeigt, wie Mädchen und Jungen sich an Rollenerwartungen anpassen, und wie sie lernen können, diese zu brechen. Ein Buch, das einen zum Nachdenken anregt, zum Beispiel mit Sätzen wie diesen: "𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍. […] 𝙰 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝: 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢. 𝚆𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢." oder "𝚆𝚎 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 '𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝' 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚗, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗." Trotzdem wird nicht mit dem Finger auf einen gezeigt, nach dem Motto: Die bösen Männer sind an allem Schuld.

Auch wenn das Buch sehr kurz ist, ist es auf jeden Fall lesenswert. Mir hat der Schreibstil von Adichie wirklich gut gefallen, sie erklärt komplexe Ideen auf eine verständliche Art und auch die Beispiele aus ihrem eigenen Leben, die sie schildert, unterstreichen ihre Aussagen sehr schön. Die Autorin bringt vieles unglaublich gut auf den Punkt und erklärt Dinge auf ganz einfache und verständliche Weise, so dass das Buch echt für jeden geeignet ist. Ich würde das Buch auch echt jedem empfehlen, ob man sich bereits mit dem Thema Feminismus auseinandergesetzt hat oder nicht, ich denke jeder kann aus den Überlegungen von Adichie etwas für sich gewinnen. Ich habe das Buch auch bereits meinem Vater ausgeliehen und ihn konnte es genauso überzeugen wie mich.

I loved the general idea of this, of all men and women being equal, and it’s a great introduction to feminism for people who haven’t really thought about it before. But I do have to say that it displays transphobia and homophobia, which ultimately disregards intersectionality and excludes certain groups of people from the discussion.

Dieser Essay ist eine Niederschrift von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies TEDx Talk "We should all be feminists". Sie erklärt in diesem kurzen Beitrag sehr simpel und klar verständlich, warum Feminismus heute noch notwendig ist und beschreibt das anhand von Alltagssituationen. Ich habe schon gelegentlich die Kritik gelesen, dass Chimamanda sich lediglich auf binäre Geschlechtsidentitäten konzentriert, was berechtigt ist. Leider hat sich ja inzwischen herausgestellt, dass dies nicht lediglich Unwissen der Autorin war, sondern sie tatsächlich nur binäre cis Geschlechtsidentitäten akzeptiert - was für mich leider nicht mit Feminismus zusammenpasst. Sehr schade, da ich fand, dass "We should all be feminists" sich hervorragend as Einstiegslektüre für Feminismus eignet.