All 16-year-olds in Sweden to be given copy of 'We Should All Be Feminists'
Swedish Women's Lobby has launched an initiative to distribute a copy of 'We Should All Be Feminists' to every 16-year-old in the country "as a gift".
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Your support makes all the difference.Sweden will distribute a copy of best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feminist manifesto ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ to every 16-year-old student in the country.
The Swedish Women’s Lobby, a politically independent women’s organisation, has joined with a number of associate organisations including the UN association of Sweden to distribute the book to all students in the Swedish second grade as a "gift”.
The group hopes it will “work as a stepping stone for a discussion about gender equality and feminism”.
The book, released in Swedish on 1 December, is adapted from Adichie’s TED talk of the same name, and aims to offer a modern definition of feminism and outline the discrimination and oppression facing women in the 21st century.
Designed to be widely accessible for anyone to read, ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ provides an outline of sexual politics in the modern world, from the more patent discrimination that women face to the less obvious micro-aggressions and pressures which can hold women back.
Clara Berglund, chairperson of the Swedish Women’s Lobby, said “This is the book that I wish all my male classmates would have read when I was 16… It is a gift to all second grade high school students, but it is also a gift to ourselves and future generations”.
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