Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain

2 reviews

tender_onion's review

informative medium-paced

3.5

With the exception of quoting others, the language chosen by the author is cisheteronormative, and almost exclusively describes experiences of cisgender women. 

This was a bit of a let down for a book that was otherwise intersectional, as it failed to share/reflect on how many of the topics discussed also impact trans people, and not just people who were assigned female at birth (including trans men, trans women, nonbinary folks, two-spirit people, agender people, gender nonconforming folks, and everyone else whose gender resides outside of the gender binary). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Violence, Medical content, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Grief, Child death, Medical trauma, Rape, Suicide attempt, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Racism, Sexual violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Police brutality, Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

selenaskitels's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Child death