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Book Synopsis'We need fewer road maps towards a treaty with patriarchy, and more manifestos on how to destroy it.' The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls identifies seven sins women and girls are socialised to avoid anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence and lust. With essays on each, Mona Eltahawy creates a stunning manifesto encouraging women worldwide to defy, disobey and disrupt the patriarchy. Drawing on her own life and the work of intersectional activists from around the world, #MeToo and the Arab Spring, Eltahawy s work defines what it is to be a feminist now.
Trade Review‘She is here for your liberation, and that of every woman and girl, from Nunavut to Namibia’ REBECCA SOLNIT, author of MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME ‘Shocking, brave, gloriously unfeminine, and right on time’ GLORIA STEINEM, writer and feminist activist ‘It is as piercingly intelligent as it is uncompromising. Every woman should read this’ MAAZA MENGISTE, Booker Prize shortlisted author of THE SHADOW KING 'A vociferous, highly motivational call to arms for the feminist movement' KIRKUS 'The fierce Mona Eltahawy is back with the feminist manifesto of the year.' MS MAGAZINE
