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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
22 reviews
crabbytaco's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Abandonment
Moderate: Murder and Child death
shelbyslifer's review against another edition
4.75
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
revived_reading's review against another edition
5.0
This book opens your eyes not only to the lives of these 5 women, but to the lives of many, many women in the Victorian era.
Hallie Rubenhold truly gave back these women their stories and their lives. She gave them the respect they were never given. She gave them justice.
Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
Moderate: Terminal illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Child death, and Domestic abuse
lavenderlilacs1912's review against another edition
4.75
Central to Rubenhold's book is the argument that the cultural depictions of these five murdered women as "prostitutes" is mistaken and even downright false. Indeed, she argues that of the five women, only two were had ever conclusively engaged in prostitution. Throughout the book, she paints portraits of women who struggled with abuse, addiction, illness, and above all poverty. That poverty, and it's resulting homelessness led to their misclassifications, because in the morally unforgiving and strict Victorian era, the police, media, and the mostly middle to upper class public they catered to could not possibly have conceived them to be anything else.
It's a compelling argument. I'm inclined to agree with it, although I would have liked to see a better organization of the book's thesis. Above all, it's a moving and sad account of the lives of Mary Ann, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate, and Mary Jane; daughters, wives, mothers, friends, and above all human beings, who did not deserve to be murdered regardless of their circumstances.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Abandonment, and Death
Minor: Trafficking
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
98romantic's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Confinement and Abandonment
katievh's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, and Sexism
Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Murder, Death of parent, Infidelity, Infertility, and Terminal illness
maddalenacesco's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Medical content
liviy0017's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence
Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Trafficking
odrib's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Misogyny