Name: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
ISBN: 9780807013816

Mona Eltahawy

Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Eltahawy delivers a bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Aubrey Hicks

I love this book. That being said, I don't think it will be for everyone. To me, the best thing to come out of the #MeToo movement is the idea that women can actually be people. Warts and all.

This book is about that. What are the emotions women, traditionally, been discouraged from having? Eltahawy's chapters focus on 7 of these emotions, or actions which for hundreds of years women throughout the world have been discouraged from feeling or doing. 

We covered this in our Bookclub Podcast, and it was one of the most fun conversations from last year. 

Yes, it's angry, but anger seems well overdue.

Jessica

I adore this book. I needed this book in my life and I'm so happy to have discovered its existence. I want everyone to read this book. It's full of rage and passion and insight and empowerment and I was pumping my fist all the way through reading it.

elif sinem

An actual must read. The feminismprint.

Is what I wrote at the start, but I cannot stop thinking of the violence chapter... or wherever the war thing got mentioned? I think it's just... too simplistic to brush off war as a "guy" thing. I hate war as much as the next person, but given the situations that surrounds Turkey these days? I cannot stop thinking about how it isn't really a partiarchy thing. War is a deeply imperialist, capitalist thing. So... eh. But the rest is quite good. It's like self-help that actually matters.

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

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