Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

38 reviews

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Murder, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deportation

kirstenf's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Racism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, and Sexism

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual violence

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexism, Medical content, and Rape

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

eve81's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Mental illness, Genocide, Addiction, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

oworthyfool's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Mental illness, Murder, and Medical content

tigerlark's review

challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

A deeply informative book that changed my mind on several things! I wish Davis had gone a little further in explaining restorative justice and how that looks in a more practical context. But it was still a fascinating read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Police brutality, and Slavery

justinareads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Torture

lucy12345's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Confinement, Sexual violence, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Hate crime, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Classism, and Drug use

Minor: Colonisation

wetdirtreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Murder, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Classism, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Minor: Colonisation, War, Homophobia, and Drug use

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

I'd like to propose the opposite of Betteridge's law of headlines: Angela Y. Davis' law of book titles, which states that if a book asks the reader a question than answer as probably yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Deportation, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Rape