Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross

6 reviews

brogancha's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexism, Racism, Ableism, Miscarriage, Infertility, Sexual violence, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Slavery, Abortion, and Homophobia

Moderate: Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Vomit

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

 This was such a fascinating read. It's written in a very accessible way, while still being detailed and well researched. It was infuriating to read about the patriarchal history of medical research but there's also a hopeful feeling about the future. If it hadn't been a library book I would have highlighted so many interesting facts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Body shaming, Sexism, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Minor: Dysphoria and Transphobia

Animal cruelty = mentions of lab testing on animals

yourbookishbff's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Transphobia, and Medical content

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Outing, Deadnaming, Sexual violence, and Infertility

Minor: Suicide

booktoad's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Rape, Abortion, Body shaming, Ableism, Misogyny, and Racism

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Vagina Obscura is Not Fun. It starts with a graphic surgery and ends with a graphic surgery with lots of graphic surgery and misogyny in between. There's not a lot of room for celebrating the really bad-ass work the vagina does, it really emphasizes what the medical community has perpetrated on people with vaginas.
I did very much appreciate the chapter about gender affirming surgery. 
The narrator was never anything less than jarring. She's apparently from Australia but lived in NYC and can't decide which accent to commit to. It felt like she didn't make an effort to figure out how to pronounce words, maybe she was using Australian pronunciation or maybe she just didn't look things up? Either way, no fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Outing, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Suicide, and Body shaming

wreathedinviolets's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

This was very informative and packaged in an interesting and easy way to read. I really enjoyed learning about the history of gender affirming care and endometriosis in particular. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma