Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

6 reviews

barium_squirrel's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Classism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence, Excrement, Drug abuse, Blood, Misogyny, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, Medical trauma, Dementia, Addiction, Confinement, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

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

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

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was full of sensitive reflections and life lessons that Jenny Worth learned when she was a midwife in England in the 1950s, 1960s, & 1970s. It was heartfelt and moving. And yes, much like the show, I did cry a few times!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

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

pickledradish's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

A really fascinating look into a time period I didn't know much about before falling in love with the show. There's really a lot of information about how history and the past still affects the present. Alternates lighthearted anecdotes with some of the very difficult and tragic stories of people in awful situations, usually due to poverty. Overall has a very hopeful and reflective tone, but there's a lot of darkness in some of the stories

, especially that of Mary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexism, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, and Rape