Women should not be defined as the opposite of men and an inferior sex for they are integral parts of our society and, most especially, in our lives. They have amazing abilities that needs to be recognized and that only they can do, such as giving birth. Without females, the world will not be filled with talented and great people that bring colors to it. But their capabilities are not only limited to giving birth for they can also do anything like the other sex does. They are strong, independent, and beautiful people that do nothing but love, strive, and survive.
There may have been a lot of discriminations and sexisms that happened and are currently happening in all across the globe. The common subject of interest of these issues is females and that’s where people’s judgment went wrong. The physical appearance of women, and any person, has nothing to do on their talents, abilities, and dreams. They are also people with hopes and aspirations that they want to achieve. Oppressing and discriminating them will not do any good to the society.
Literature is a great platform that promotes women empowerment. As a matter of fact, it features a lot of books that contains women oppression and discrimination so that people will be aware how females were unequally treated and, from that, they’ll learn not to do it again. Thus, here are some of the amazing book written by women that showcase how strong and amazing females are:
Straight from My Heart
Straight from My Heart by Jacqui DeLorenzo is a book about hope, love, and peace. It was published by iUniverse in September 17, 2012. Straight from My Heart: Journeys of Hope, Love, and Peace is a self-help book that contains real-life stories and poems that were written by a lady who successfully helped her fellows to uncover their truest selves. It shares the woman’s experiences on how her life was moved by others. The collected tales and poems that are inside the book mostly revolve around hope and bravery that are meant for people who have gone through difficulties in life and/or who has lost someone dear to them. It will also raise the question: is there an afterlife? Moreover, every tale in this book aims to open the heats, move the souls, and inspire people to believe in what is within their reach and attainable.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell authored the amazing book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. It was published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. Sandberg is known as the chief operating officer of the biggest social media platform Facebook while Scovell is an amazing television and magazine writer. Some of the chapters of the book are called The Leadership Ambition Gap: What Would You Do if You Weren’t Afraid?, Sit at the Table, Success and Likeability, It’s a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder, Are You My Mentor?, Seek and Speak Your Truth, Don’t Leave before you Leave, and more. The book, moreover, gathered different reviews and criticisms. It was reviewed by different critics, such as The Baffler, The Guardian, journalist Susan Faludi, and even the former first lady Michelle Obama.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was written by Rebecca Skloot and was published by Crown last February 2, 2010. It falls under the genre non-fiction and was the recipient of the 2011 National Academies Communication Award for the greatest creative work that support people in comprehending topics in different fields, specifically in engineering, medicine, and/or science. The book centers on the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman, and HeLa or the undying line of cells that emerge from her cervical cancer cells. Skloot did a thorough research about Lacks and had worked along with the subject’s family in order to produce a good book. What make The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks remarkable are all the scientific writings in it and how it handles racism and classicism in the field of medical research.
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb wrote the promising non-fiction book I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for the Education and was Shot by the Taliban. This novel fell under the subcategory of non-fiction called autobiography. It was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson while it was published in the US by the Little, Brown and Company. It follows the early life story of the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. The book narrates the life of Malala before, during, and after the rise of Taliban. It stated how they lived together as a family and how her father attended Jehanzeb College to take his master’s degree in English. Her father, Ziauddin, owned a school named Khushal School and how his father adored eduction implanted in Malala’s heart and mind. Her love for education turned into activism for female education and that’s the reason why armed men tried to assassinate her when she was 15 years old.
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