The young actress, Emma Watson, has invested a lot in defending women's rights. She has even launched her feminist reading club named "Our Shared Shelf". Thus, she shares her new readings and discusses them with the members of her club subscribing to the account Instagram dedicated to her.

Here are 3 books recommended by Emma Watson (available in France):

  • 1 / How to be a woman of Caitlin Moran

The book on woman is funny, addressing the "chores" that the woman would do well and all these phenomena of society that can lead to a question: "why?". Why is the woman "obliged" to depilate the jersey in metro ticket, why the trend of botox, why society is convinced that we will all be mom? The book explains how to be a woman, concretely.

2 / Persepolis of Marjane Satrapi

The story takes place in Tehran in the 1970s. Marjane, 8, follows the events leading to the fall of the Shah regime. Her parents send her to Austria to protect her. She arrives in Vienna and discovers another life, between pleasure, freedom and love and a darker part: loneliness, distance and difference.

  • 3 / Half of the sky of Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl Wuduun

This book narrates the lives of women living on the other side of our borders and what they are subjected to: mutilation, rape, sexual slavery. The authors are two great American reporters who have traveled the villages in Asia, Africa and the Middle East to gather information about them by meeting hundreds of women who struggle for their dignity.