Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

7 reviews

gracethebibliofeline's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexism

Minor: Blood and Vomit

idesofmarch's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, Misogyny, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent and Grief

elnelson's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Sexism

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent

chronologically_charlie's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Natural science is my jaaaaam. I've spent a good chunk of my life in labs, but there's no better setting than the natural lab that the world provides us. This memoir supports me one thousand times over, as it weaves together Hope's path with her studies, careers, and relationships. As many other reviewers have mentioned, her partnership with Bill is nothing short of delightful. Reading about their struggles and triumphs is almost like I was right alongside them on their journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical trauma

becksusername's review

emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Vomit, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

ruthjenkins's review

reflective medium-paced

3.0

I enjoyed the botany chapters and the insight into how a research lab works. The actual day-to-day, building instruments, running experiments, was fascinating. But the personal memoir parts didn't land with me. The way she and her research partner/best friend treat their students borders on cruel (chastising a graduate student who has just crashed a car for not being sufficiently grateful to be alive...). I appreciate her warts-and-all approach in writing, but I struggled to empathise when reading this memoir. I think having read Braiding Sweetgrass so recently, in which the author has immense compassion and care for her students, Lab Girl failed to strike the same chord with me. I was also disappointed how little coverage we get of her balancing career in research with raising a family. STEM has a notoriously leaky pipeline for women starting a family, and I would've liked as much detail of her navigating mid-career as we had for her early career. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Sexism

nata_c's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexism