Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

5 reviews

teganbeesebooks's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Medical content, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Vomit, Infidelity, Abortion, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Slavery

milliecybu's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Slavery, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Abortion, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Racial slurs, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Abandonment

Minor: Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual content, and Grief

town_scar's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Vomit, Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Infertility, Sexism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Sexual content

heather_freshparchment's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This book is truly incredible. It's a hard read, but it's such a necessary read, especially now. Wright not only tells the story of an incredible woman, but also pulls in a lot of the history that influenced Madame Restell's career over the years. The parallels in the swings from liberal to conservative morality over the nineteenth-century are scarily in-line with our current swings. The Know-Nothing party is frighteningly similar to current alt-right politicians and groups. The epilogue is a gut-punch of a plea for level-headedness and consideration in the aftermath of the overturn of Roe v Wade. Wright gets deeply personal in that epilogue to prove her point, which is both great support for her argument and incredibly brave of her. I had to put this down at times because it made me so angry that not a lot seems to have changed for women, but that's why this book is such a necessary read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Racism, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Rape, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Suicide

Minor: Pedophilia, Infertility, War, Incest, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Forced institutionalization