num_pages: 216
description: 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.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the seven necessary sins that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry ambitious profane violent attention-seeking lustful and powerful. All the necessary sins that women and girls require to erupt.Eltahawy knows that the patriarchy is alive and well and she is fed up: Sexually assaulted during hajj at the age of fifteen. Groped on the dance floor of a night club in Montreal at fifty. Countless other injustices in the years between. Illuminating her call to action are stories of activists and ordinary women around the worldfrom South Africa to China Nigeria to India Bosnia to Egyptwho are tapping into their inner fury and crossing the lines of race class faith and gender that make it so hard for marginalized women to be heard. Rather than teaching women and girls to survive the poisonous system they have found themselves in Eltahawy arms them to dismantle it.Brilliant bold and energetic The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a manifesto for all feminists in the fight against patriarchy.
language: English
title: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
publisher: Beacon Press