Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

50 reviews

bellebookstitch666's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Grief, Sexism, Alcohol, Child death, and Alcoholism

booksandlattesaddict's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Addiction, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Murder

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.5

This is a sincere and well-researched account of the lives of the five women killed by Jack the ripper. Hallie Rubenhold ensures their legacies with her diligent research and her focus on the lives of the women, over their gruesome and mythologized deaths. In contextualizing the sexual climate of the Victorian era, Rubenhold offers a vivid image of the nuanced worlds these women lived in, often so different from the straight laced Victorian England canonized today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Dementia, Miscarriage, Sexism, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Grief, Infidelity, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Trafficking, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Incest

emilo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Sexism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Murder, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

carlaah1984's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Alcoholism, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Body horror, Child death, and Gaslighting

A well-researched and engaging look at working-class women in victorian times, highly informative about the lives and realities of the victims and the humanizing storytelling they all deserved—great conclusion to tie into modernity.

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

An interesting look into the true lives of Jack the Ripper's conical five victims and thoughts on how they've been forgotten and twisted by the press and others while he's become infamous. The fact that only 2 of them were sex workers was surprising to me because I'd heard the familiar story. But they were sleeping on the street because of poverty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Miscarriage

nieva098's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Death of parent, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Classism, Medical trauma, and Sexism

isleofwoman's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Minor: Trafficking

abby_can_read's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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I enjoyed this book. It was well research and well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Classism, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Child death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Sexual violence

Minor: Chronic illness and Mental illness

shelbyslifer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This has to be the best book to date on this case that has transfixed the world for over a century. Instead of information on the crimes that are infamous by now, Rubenhold instead focuses on the LIFE of these women and bringing them the humanity that they deserve. These women deserve the truth to their stories; not just for their tragic ends to be gawked at and Rubenhold highlights this PERFECTLY. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Abandonment, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Murder, Sexism, Child death, Classism, Death, Misogyny, Child abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Antisemitism and Trafficking