Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

27 reviews

coleanne's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

bwray1's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Gore

chamomile_calm's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, and Sexual harassment

freyaboobac's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexism, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Classism, Colonisation, Gaslighting, and Genocide

arrowdodger's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Mass/school shootings

suzyvee's review

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, and Domestic abuse

pingureads's review

3.0

 Some of these essays felt fleshed out and insightful, standouts for me were Grandmother Spider, Woolf's Darkness and Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite. Men Explain Things to Me, the titular essay, felt simplistic and underdeveloped even for it's age and having brought this phenomenon to the forefront of the political and feminist conversation. The Longest War was a series of entirely-too-graphic statistics on SA and DV rather than an essay.

While the collection has some gems, it is not enough of a fundamental text to ignore the flaws of the discussion. Pick up a more nuanced and contemporary collection on similar topics of feminism and that will serve you much better than this does on that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Misogyny

mads_jpg's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.25

Rebecca Solnit is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers, she writes so beautifully about some of the ugliest topics, and I just want to hear her thoughts on literally anything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexism

hollygallagher's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

angebrown's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny