Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

8 reviews

sapphirerose's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Rape, Abortion, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Terminal illness, and Vomit

skk111321's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

I loved reading this as I have been an avid fan of the show “Call The Midwife” for years. The book differ in many ways, but the spirit of Popular and the folks living and working in it as described still rings true. I loved getting more insight into Jennifer Worth’s life through this book.

It was definitely a challenging read at time and had a lot of medical jargon. I appreciated the index at the end for all of the medical terms used!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Domestic abuse and War

Minor: Racism

aminowrimo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs and Rape

blewballoon's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I bought this book a couple years ago after I finished watching the latest season of Call the Midwife at the time. It's one of my favorite shows and I wish I had read the books sooner, it's a lot more of a faithful adaptation than I expected. It was nice to revisit the stories I remember from the early seasons but get a more in-depth midwife perspective on them, along with more information about how the characters from the show were presented in the memoir. Honestly, I feel like the show should get a reward for how good of a book adaptation it is. My biggest criticism is that the opinions of the author herself can be a little outdated and touch on racist/sexist or generally problematic. The book also feels incomplete, some things are set up or hinted at and then don't reach a conclusion as if they were setup for sequels, which I didn't expect in a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and War

olivexgreen's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

I’ll admit, I started reading this because I love the BBC series. I think this book does a lot to show what life in Poplar must have been like for the people living there, the medical and financial realities of Jennifer Worth’s patients. 

However, Worth writes from a place of privilege and judgement. Judgements about the nuns, her fellow midwives, her patients are made callously. I would be less put off by them if it weren’t for the fact that she says these things as she writes and not as she’s looking back. 

She makes judgmental comments about her patients’ social status, their dialect, their racial/ethnic backgrounds, their homes, their bodies. She refers to wealthy London as the only civilized place in the world (a comment which is made about 2009).

If you’re looking for the compassion and kindness of the series, skip the memoirs. If you’re looking for information, give it a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Sexism, Classism, Infidelity, and Trafficking

6emptynotebooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racism

aliceperspeculum's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Child death, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, and Abortion

speroergosum's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Death, Rape, Racism, and Miscarriage