Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

28 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Police brutality, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

vrede's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Misogyny, Slavery, Violence, Child abuse, Colonisation, Classism, Sexism, Trafficking, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Torture, Racism, and Emotional abuse

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Hate crime, Classism, Sexual violence, Genocide, Gore, Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, War, Kidnapping, Sexism, Torture, and Trafficking

jojo_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Misogyny, Slavery, Classism, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Transphobia, Islamophobia, and Colonisation

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Classism, Misogyny, Sexism, Rape, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

schivakumaran's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is one of those books that will stay with me forever.

How can a racist woman call herself a feminist?

Fantastic Important and a Necessary read. This was me learning and understanding a different perspective therefore I cannot comment on it in the same way I could a non fiction book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexism, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Rape, Racial slurs, Genocide, Bullying, Child death, Sexual violence, Racism, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Torture, Gun violence, Grief, and Domestic abuse

knicke's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This is a review for the audiobook narrated by Adenrele Ojo. Ojo does a fantastic job of narrating this text. As for hooks, she provides a very comprehensive, touching, and deeply insightful look into black feminism — making this text widely accessible. The biggest criticism I would have of “Ain’t I a Woman” is where hooks’ locates power. At times it seems she locates power in the mind of individuals and other times she seems to place it in structure. I found this to cause some passages to contradict others. And while I don’t think this is an issue that all texts focused on intersectionality needs to address — I do think that hooks’ critique and analysis of social change and social movements necessitates a more direct engagement with her epistemological and ontological assumptions. Still, this is a great text and certainly worth the read (or in my case, listen)!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Slavery, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

trademark's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Racism

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Rape

stillmuseum's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Slavery, Racism, Rape, Colonisation, Torture, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Violence

geekywoman14's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Language is important. I've worked on dismantling my engrained white supremacy teachings for more than 20 years now. So while little of the information here was new, bell hooks pointed out something I tend to forget despite it not being new information, and that's that language matters. She mentions many times how 'man' meant 'white man', 'Negro' meant 'Black man's, and' woman' meant 'white woman' therefore excluding Black women and men and women and non-binary people of all other ethnic and racial backgrounds. What's more, these weren't accidental exclusions, but at least initially purposeful choices meant to exclude. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Rape and Gore