Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

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

4 reviews

amsswim's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Required reading. Highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Intersectionality should be the standard.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Classism, Death, Deportation, Xenophobia, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Misogyny, Genocide, Grief, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

A difficult topic shown under a harsh almost clinical light.  Everything is so matter of fact, and it is so sad.  I don’t know why I decided to read this.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism, Racism, Violence, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Body shaming, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

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

liaer's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book was excellent. Bell hook is a wonderful writer who is an expert at the English language. It was incredibly informative and was obviously very well researched. The only reason that I didn't give it five stars is because it seemed to jump around a little for me. It followed history, examining the slave trade, then slavery, then antebellum era, and onwards. However, I felt like when she was in each of these eras she moved around a little too fast for me. I would recommend this to everyone and anyone. 

Fair warning is that there are a lot of triggering content that can be deeply upsetting. I have tried to include all of the ones I could remember in the content warnings, but please go in with the expectation that there are things that are horrific, but important to learn about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gore, Death, and Colonisation