The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By Mona Eltahawy
By Mona Eltahawy
By Mona Eltahawy
By Mona Eltahawy
By Mona Eltahawy
By Mona Eltahawy
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$17.95
Sep 15, 2020 | ISBN 9780807002582
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$24.95
Sep 17, 2019 | ISBN 9780807013816
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Praise
“A sharp manifesto for fighting the patriarchy . . . Brilliant and electrifying.”
—Booklist, Starred Review
“A vociferous, highly motivational call to arms for the feminist movement.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Eltahawy’s arguments come through with as much intelligence and clarity as passion and evocative imagery; they are built on facts about racism, capitalism, and homophobia, as well as her own and others’ experiences.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Eltahawy’s book is an enormously valuable accounting of the work of patriarchy-smashers who are not white or rich or famous.”
—The Progressive
“The fierce Mona Eltahawy is back with the feminist manifesto of the year. Inspired by #MeToo and more, this book provides readers with everything they need to launch their latest and greatest assault on the patriarchy.”
—Ms. Magazine
“Incredibly direct and fiercely intelligent . . . . A book for those who don’t wait for permission.”
—Marwa Helal, author of Invasive species
“The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is an incendiary, searing manifesto by one of the most important feminist activists of our time. Mona Eltahawy writes with urgency and passion about women around the world, calling on us to banish self-doubt and shame—all the traits that so many have been taught from childhood—and heed her battle cry against the patriarchy. She has written a wildly inspiring, brave book that commands our attention.”
—Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
“The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is shocking, brave, gloriously unfeminine, and right on time. This global MeToo is the ultimate and intimate TimesUp for patriarchy. Reading it will free you, and acting on it will free us all.”
—Gloria Steinem, writer and feminist activist
“Mona Eltahawy reminds me that when I was young we called it women’s liberation: she is here for your liberation and that of every woman and girl, from Nunavut to Namibia. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls . . . exhorts and advocates for more confidence, more clarity, more of a sense of value and rights, more pleasure and joy for women. With its gloriously energetic, rampaging prose, it also inspires those things.”
—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
“The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a clarion call to action and a declaration of independence from patriarchal oppression. It is an homage to the girls we were and the girls we could have been. Mona Eltahawy writes with bracing wit and fierce intelligence, with unapologetic fury and an expansive heart. In these pages you will find yourself again and again, and you will see who you can become. This book is fucking brilliant.”
—Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King
Table Of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Defying, Disobeying, and Disrupting the Patriarchy
CHAPTER 1
Anger
CHAPTER 2
Attention
CHAPTER 3
Profanity
CHAPTER 4
Ambition
CHAPTER 5
Power
CHAPTER 6
Violence
CHAPTER 7
Lust
CONCLUSION
Acknowledgments
Notes
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