Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

6 reviews

themeanfrench's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Blood

withlivjones's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

This book is definitely appropriately named, so many aspects of girlhood condensed into just over 100 pages and every woman will be able to connect with at least one element of Annie Ernaux’s account. 

In theory, this book really shouldn’t work - it’s rambling and confused to the point where by the end even the author isn’t sure what it has become. But there’s something about Ernaux’s writing that is extremely compelling and brings all the threads of the story together. It reads like fiction, but the fact that it’s a memoir told nearly fifty years after the event makes it all the more sad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Classism

solshineytb's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.0

avec ce livre j'ai vraiment compris ce qu'était l'écriture d'Annie Ernaux

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

booksinthetreehouse's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexism, and Sexual assault

cecilie_who_reads's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

Fish out of water - to be out of a very restricted environment for the first time and taking your cues from the cool kids, you think, as to how to do cool, normal, sexy, grown-up. The girl from '58 is the writer's own self from that year - barely remembered, estranged from the mature author, dug out from letters, diaries, pictures. She goes as the youngest childcarer or pedagogue to a summercamp, to earn money and experience. 

Coming from a boy-less Catholic School, the 17-year-old "girl from '58" is so deceived, and no one think of her as some one who they should be teaching to stand up for herself or what to put up with or how to have fun. Swept up and used on the first night away by a 22-year-old head-pedagogue, she invests all her feelings in what she believes belongs together with kisses and sex, and falls in love with that *hole leader, some five years older than her, who has no respect for such a 'dumb' little girl. That whole summer she goes along with this lesson and confuses the desire of worthless young men with respect or even sympathy. She is the despised laughing stock of her 'colleagues'. 
It severely affects the direction she takes with her life afterwards. Thank God for her that what she is really good at is being a writer. But without that summer, she may have had more ways of functioning, more choice.  :

 
One would want young people to read this before they set out to let classmates and friends define the world for them - one would also want them not to read it - it is so harsh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Rape, and Sexual content

astridmalmhester's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content