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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
7 reviews
mahmabaer's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Death, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Bullying, Death of parent, Addiction, Grief, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence
emilo's review against another edition
5.0
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
walkie_check's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Child death
epeolatri's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Addiction, Sexism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, Classism, Death, Alcoholism, Child death, Alcohol, and Murder
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content
rosalind's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexism, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death of parent, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship
distilledreads's review
5.0
“The truth of these women’s lives is not simple … Ultimately, no one really cared about who they were or how they ended up in Whitechapel.”
“In order to gawp at and examine the miracle of malevolence we have figuratively stepped over the bodies of those [Jack the Ripper] murdered, and in some cases, stopped to kick them as we walked past. The larger his profile grows, the more those of his victims seems to fade.”
“In order to keep him alive, we have had to forget his victims. We have become complicit in their diminishment.”
“The fibres that have clung to and defined the shape of Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Kate, and Mary Jane’s stories are the values of the Victorian world. They are male, authoritarian, and middle class.”
“Just as it did in the nineteenth century, the notion that the victims were ‘only prostitutes’ perpetuates the belief that there are good women and bad women, madonnas and whores.
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“Labelling the victims as ‘just prostitutes’ permits those writing about Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Kate, and Mary Jane even today to continue to disparage them; to continue to reinforce the values of Madonna/whore.”
“By permitting [the women] to speak, by attempting to understand their experiences and see their humanity, we can restore to them the respect and compassion to which they are entitled. The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough.”
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Sexism
sarah984's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, and Misogyny
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Physical abuse
Minor: Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, and Religious bigotry