Books by Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian American journalist and feminist activist. Her work has been published in newspapers around the world and she is a frequent commentator on current affairs on the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera, amongst others, where her goal is always to disrupt patriarchy. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. She recently launched her newsletter Feminist Giant. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: @monaeltahawy.
“I wrote Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls because I was fed up with polite feminism. I’m not polite, I’m profane. And I am enraged by the harm done by patriarchy. And this book isn’t just for women or girls. It’s…for all those who are hurt by patriarchy, including men…I wanted to write what I call a Molotov cocktail. It’s my ambition that the book will be used as a manifesto to encourage others to start making feminism 3D. The three Ds are defiant, disobedient and disruptive of the patriarchy. I hope readers will seize the Seven Sins, my Molotov cocktail, and use it to set aflame the multi-tentacled oppression we call patriarchy.” Read more...
Mona Eltahawy, Journalist
Interviews with Mona Eltahawy
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Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi -
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (editors) -
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde -
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A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: The Rojava Revolution
by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness -
5
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
by June Jordan
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
If you looked up patriarchy in a dictionary, the definition probably wouldn’t correspond with what most feminists and activists mean by it today. Here, Mona Eltahawy—journalist, activist and author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls—explains what it’s all about, why its tentacles are everywhere, and what to read to understand more about it.
Interviews where books by Mona Eltahawy were recommended
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1
Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi -
2
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (editors) -
3
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde -
4
A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: The Rojava Revolution
by Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness -
5
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
by June Jordan
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
The best books on Patriarchy, recommended by Mona Eltahawy
If you looked up patriarchy in a dictionary, the definition probably wouldn’t correspond with what most feminists and activists mean by it today. Here, Mona Eltahawy—journalist, activist and author of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls—explains what it’s all about, why its tentacles are everywhere, and what to read to understand more about it.
