Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

9 reviews

haleybre's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Medical content, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Incest, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, War, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexism

hollygmeier's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Death, and Lesbophobia

keziahgoodman's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Misogyny

kyleighwhitsell's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

macknificent's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

1.0

Despite what the author may claim in the foreword, this book is a "history" of White Feminism and American propaganda. In other words, it's surface level and racist as hell. 

Despite the language of their oppression being co-opted at every opportunity, BIPOC are rarely mentioned throughout the book. When BIPOC are mentioned, it is to serve one of two purposes, depending on their gender: 
- Non-white men, of course, are the most violent of oppressors
- Non-white women show up as voices of wisdom to support whatever actions the white femme is taking at that moment. 

The "history" isn't well researched either. Off the top of my head, I recall a whole bit about chastity belts, the use of which has been debunked. Of course, as a particularly cruel "invention," their creation was attributed to MENA men.

To sum up, if you say things like, "We are the daughters of the witches you didn't burn," or still wear your pussy hat with pride, you'll like this book. For everybody else, skip it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexism, Abortion, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Infertility, and Infidelity

Minor: Slavery and Pedophilia

berd's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, War, and Rape

clairet386's review against another edition

Was kind of disjointed, wasn’t sure of the central argument, and I didn’t feel like I was learning the things about women in history that I wanted to

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexism

aboone's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.75

Informative, critical, work on an important topic. As much as I admire the book, it was a difficult read because of the intense violence, oppression, and dismal treatment of women it reports on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Incest, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual violence, Torture, Abortion, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Medical content, Mental illness, War, Classism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault

inkdrinkermal's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

2.75

Informative, but I found myself getting lost in the quick switches between stories and anecdotes. The preface was awful and should be removed. It didn't reflect well on the rest of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion, Colonisation, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, and Racism