Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

45 reviews

franksalot's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

junglejelly's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Such an amazing book to delve into a few the women of Greek myths. A great springboard to look into other similar texts, too.

Haynes explores various themes and arguments for each woman, linking a few of them together (it's Greek myth, everyone's related).

Not a full 5 stars for me as sometimes I felt I as the reader needed to know the myths better to understand some of the points Haynes made.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

ivulikkivulik's review against another edition

informative

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Rape

madetofly's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Violence, Murder, and War

karissabubble's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

4.5

It was a very informative read. It is a bit on the academic side, so I think this would be great for students as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

berrybiaful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

4.25/5

I really enjoyed this! I do exercise a bit of caution when delving into reads such as this one, in case the feminist takes were of the white feminist brand, but that wasn't the case here. 

Natalie Haynes brilliantly dissects the myths in which these women were apart of and offers new perspectives of their characters. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Helen and Penelope. 

However, I did feel as if she would digress in a few places and leave me forgetting what the main point was or how a certain tale related to the women she was talking about. 

This was a good book to start of my 2023 reading year!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Transphobia, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

ashhearddwrites's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

5.0

Loved! It includes both summaries and analysis of the myths, so accessible to readers less familiar with Greek mythology (and provided new details I didn't know). Only wish it included more of the images described/referenced but understand the logistical and copyright difficulties that would entail

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, and Murder

moonytoast's review against another edition

4.25

RTC….. until then, support the HarperCollins Union strike!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and War

rbacon's review against another edition

funny informative reflective fast-paced

Loved this! It goes into so much depth on commonly overlooked women in Greek mythology and just adds so much context and background to their characters. Women have always been in the centre of stories, but we seem to have forgotten it and written them out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

kkalicky94's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War