Reviews tagging 'Abortion'

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

4 reviews

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, Transphobia, Terminal illness, Stalking, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Cancer, Death of parent, and Abortion

Minor: Excrement

lilysendroff's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Combination of theory and memoir, muddies the binary of transgressive and normative through reflections on queerness, motherhood, pregnancy, and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

Frequent mentions of Buddhism, reference to a theorist who makes questionable claims about being pregnant with mixed children as a white woman, and naming their child with a Native American name are all aspects of the books that entirely fail to interrogate the role whiteness, which is both jarring and disappointing.

cryptidcas's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.5

confusing, poor structure, amazing points

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, Stalking, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion

jacinderr's review against another edition

funny informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

I listened to the graphic birth scene while I was having cold sweat diarrhea and those two things combined created a truly cinematic experience.

Other than that this book was too smart for me, I enjoyed parts and some bits really stuck with me but it came off too pretentious and academic at times. Very much from a white woman's perspective. Don’t regret reading it tho 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion