A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie''s letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Lire la suite Fermer

Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation'' New York Review of Booksbr>br>Bringing together Sontag''s most fearless and incisive writing, On Women examines the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation.br>br>First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag''s essays examine the ''biological division of labour'', the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which resonate with our current moment more than it might be hoped.br>br>For any Sontag fan, this collection of previously unpublished essays is a dazzling revelation into her achievements as an essayist.br>br>''One of America''s greatest public intellectuals'' Observerbr>br>''Susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites'' The Timesbr>br>''At the time she died, she was America''s best-known public intellectual. To my mind, she was also the most exemplary'' John Gray, New Statesman> Lire la suite Fermer

Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.>

***NEW EDITION WITH BONUS CHAPTER*** Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don''t Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. ''THE BEAUTY MYTH'' FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATION Women Don''t Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy. Through Florence''s story you will learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, and realise that today is a wonderful day to dump them. Florence Given is here to remind you that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty . WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT (AND A LOAD OF UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS). THE FEMINIST BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. ''An incredible mouthpiece for modern intersectional feminism.'' - Glamour '' A fearless book. '' - Cosmopolitan ''A hugely influential young woman.'' - Woman''s Hour '' Rallying, radical and pitched perfectly for her generation. '' - Evening Standard
Lire la suite Fermer

When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world.
Lire la suite Fermer

An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Lire la suite Fermer

What remains of the witch hunts? A stubborn misogyny, which still tints the way our societies look at single women, childless women, aging women, or quite simply, free women . . . Today more than ever, witches tell us about our world and lead the way.>

Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever imagineWhy are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat''s Theorem is not a genius.Just as he did in Blink, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. Brilliant and entertaining, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.>
Lire la suite Fermer

Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to itbr>br>''Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read'' Roxane Gaybr>br>''A book to make you stop and think'' Mishal Husainbr>br>''This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way'' Lit Hubbr>br>Most of us believe that feminism is a force for good. In the past 200 years, it has paved the way for women to advance economically, increasing their safety and their power in society, and advocating for their needs and experiences. But not for all women.br>br>If you are poor, if you are an immigrant to the West or (even worse) don''t live here at all, and above all if your skin is not white, the door to mainstream feminism has been shut against you from day one. This is not oversight or an accident. It is an active and sustained strategy to advance white women at the expense of everyone else. And what makes this strategy especially dangerous - and especially effective - is that most white people have no idea they are participating in it.br>br>Attorney and activist Rafia Zakaria shines a spotlight on this urgent issue, revealing the fingerprints of white supremacy all over the feminist movement: from early suffragette campaigns right up to the divided and profoundly unequal world we inherit today. And she issues a powerful call to every reader to join her in building a new kind of feminism, lighting the path to emancipation for all.> Lire la suite Fermer

A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today

Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether we blush when we're embarrassed. This title shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs, and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts.

An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it''s a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person ...This book is all about those moments when we ''know'' something without knowing why. Here Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of ''blink'', showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you''ll never think about thinking in the same way again.>

. 'Florence has a way of effortlessly reminding you of who you were before the world barged in.' - Chidera Eggerue, bestselling author of What a Time to be Alone WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY will tell you to... love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, And that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book will explore all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find comfort in other women's flaws, to deciding whether to date or dump them, all the way through to unpacking the male gaze and how it shapes our identity. WOMEN DON'T OWE YOU PRETTY is an accessible leap into feminism, for people at all stages of their journey who are seeking to reshape and transform the way they view themselves. In a world that tells women we're either not enough or too much, it's time we stop directing our anger and insecurities onto ourselves, and start fighting back to re-shape the toxic structures of our patriarchal society. Florence's book will help you to tackle and challenge the limiting narrative you have been bombarded with your whole life, and determine feminism on your own terms. After all, you are the love of your own life.
Lire la suite Fermer

Lucy Delap is a historian of modern Britain, working on gender history and the history of feminism. She is currently a reader at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Murray Edwards College. Her book The Feminist Avant-Garde won the 2008 Women''s History Network Prize, while her research has been awarded the Royal Historical Society Public History Prize for public debate and policy.>

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us. Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can''t tell who''s right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.>
Lire la suite Fermer

Feel empowered with finances and discover the route to economic equality in this astonishing dissection of the gender wealth gap by pre-ordering nowbr>br>''EVERY WOMAN MUST READ THIS BOOK'' 5***** Reader Reviewbr>''THIS BOOK WILL OPEN YOUR EYES'' 5***** Reader Reviewbr>''SHOCKING AND BRILLIANT'' 5***** Reader Reviewbr>________br>br>FINANCE IS A FEMINIST ISSUE.br>br>It''s 2021. The modern world is still rigged unfairly in men''s favour.br>br>Exploring injustices from pensions to boardroom bullying, Annabelle Williams, former financial journalist for The Times, shows how society conspires to limit women''s wealth.br>br>Awareness is the first step to making change, which is why we all need to understand why women are poorer than men and what exactly we can do about it.br>br>The time to act is now.br>br>Become confident in saving, investing and building economic stability in this essential, eye-opening and game-changing expose of the gender wealth gap.br>________br>br>Did you know . . .br>br>· The NHS spends more on Viagra than helping single mother families eat healthilybr>br>· Female entrepreneurs only receive 1p in every GBP1 of funding given to start-up businessesbr>br>· Women are the majority of the elderly poorbr>br>· There are more men called Dave running the UK''s top 100 companies than there are women altogetherbr>br>· Women do 60% more unpaid work than menbr>br>Economies thrive when women do well, and only by understanding why women are poorer than men can we finally end this unfair disparity between the sexes.br>br>Why Women Are Poorer Than Men reveals how we got here and what all of us can do to fix it.br>________br>br>''It is refreshing to see Williams challenge well-worn sexist myths'' ibr>br>''Annabelle Williams uncovers the realities of money in the modern world, and what exactly we can do about the fact that women are poorer than men'' Stylistbr>br>''Goes beyond talks of glass ceilings and gender pay gaps to a more nuanced look at the institutional oppression faced by women on a daily basis'' Dazed>
Lire la suite Fermer

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger''s motives?Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.No one challenges our shared assumptions like Malcolm Gladwell. Here he uses stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, inviting us to rethink our thinking in these troubled times.>
Lire la suite Fermer

A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating a treasure-trove of the most important feminist thought alongside surprising and delightful fiction, poetry and diaries, celebrating the multiplicity of feminist voices that have emerged over the centuries.

Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men, this book goes beyond the usual white, western story. The writers in this anthology ask questions about class, capitalism and colonialism, and other axes of oppression that intersect with sexism. Inside, we find writers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who declared in 1848 the self-evident truth 'that all men and women are created equal', alongside Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in New York, who asked in 1851 'and ain't I a woman?' Put together by a world-leading historian of ideas and a feminist, The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is both a history of thought - readers will find incisive and provocative selections from Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde and over one hundred other pioneering thinkers - and a voyage of discovery, highlighting lesser-anthologised thinkers, like Juana Ines de la Cruz's seventeenth-century philosophical satire of 'misguided men', or the "poet of Palestine" Fadwa Tuqan's mountainous journeys towards self-knowledge and revolution.

The product of many years of research and reading, The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is both a deeply considered introduction to feminist thought and an abundance of riches to read and keep throughout a lifetime. Lire la suite Fermer

* The biography of an idea - that many of today's problems are as volatile as epidemics and can 'tip' and change radically at any point

Jacqueline Rose is a renowned feminist literary and cultural critic. She is the co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices and a fellow of the British Academ

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels - The Benefactor , Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America , which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors . Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays , you might like Sontag's On Photography , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' T he Times
Lire la suite Fermer