The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

“Feminism should terrify the patriarchy. It should put patriarchy on notice that we demand nothing short of its destruction. We need fewer road maps toward a peace treaty with patriarchy and more manifestos on how to de-stroy it. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is my manifesto.”

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls identifies seven ‘sins’ women and girls are socialised to avoid – anger, at-tention, 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, Elta-hawy’s work defines what it is to be a feminist now.