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- Autorius: Lemlem Adanech Handame
- Metai: 2026
- Puslapiai: 220
- ISBN-10: 1067713603
- ISBN-13: 9781067713607
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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Women's blood keeps humanity going, yet it is shamed and hidden. Women's bodies bring every human into existence, yet "የሴት ልጅ"/ "born of a woman" has become an insult. As if anyone walking this earth is not born of one.
Why are women's names erased from their own lineage? Why has the superpower of womanhood been taken and claimed by man? How did ordinary practices become a system that subjugates women and calls it tradition?
Lemlem Adanech Handame grew up in Ethiopia, where her grandfather cursed her existence for being born female. She traces her journey from Debre Zeit classrooms where excellence was treated as dishonesty, to a new life in Canada where patriarchy wore a different suit: subtle, professional, polished, but designed for the same purpose.
This formidable hybrid memoir weaves personal narrative with evidence-based research to expose the architecture of gender inequality across cultures, institutions, and generations. From the physical scars of female genital mutilation in rural Ethiopia to the invisible barriers of discrimination and wage gaps in Canada, Lemlem documents what hides inside the ordinary and proves that the limits they built were never meant to hold us.
For every woman who was told she was less. For everyone who wants to understand how the system works. The cage becomes visible. So does the door.
- Autorius: Lemlem Adanech Handame
- Metai: 2026
- Puslapiai: 220
- ISBN-10: 1067713603
- ISBN-13: 9781067713607
- Formatas: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
Women's blood keeps humanity going, yet it is shamed and hidden. Women's bodies bring every human into existence, yet "የሴት ልጅ"/ "born of a woman" has become an insult. As if anyone walking this earth is not born of one.
Why are women's names erased from their own lineage? Why has the superpower of womanhood been taken and claimed by man? How did ordinary practices become a system that subjugates women and calls it tradition?
Lemlem Adanech Handame grew up in Ethiopia, where her grandfather cursed her existence for being born female. She traces her journey from Debre Zeit classrooms where excellence was treated as dishonesty, to a new life in Canada where patriarchy wore a different suit: subtle, professional, polished, but designed for the same purpose.
This formidable hybrid memoir weaves personal narrative with evidence-based research to expose the architecture of gender inequality across cultures, institutions, and generations. From the physical scars of female genital mutilation in rural Ethiopia to the invisible barriers of discrimination and wage gaps in Canada, Lemlem documents what hides inside the ordinary and proves that the limits they built were never meant to hold us.
For every woman who was told she was less. For everyone who wants to understand how the system works. The cage becomes visible. So does the door.
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