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a_novel_craving's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Cancer, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault
cecebee's review against another edition
3.0
Minor: Sexism and Sexual assault
doodeedoda's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Cursing, and Fatphobia
samone2's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape
Moderate: Body shaming and Sexism
reneeandreea's review
4.75
Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual content
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Drug use
myk_yeah's review against another edition
5.0
I also really appreciated the honestly with which she explores the internal conflict of wanting the attention of scary, powerful men, and how we're taught to find validation in that even though it's violent towards us. There's a promise of power and empowerment there if you can be a big girl and tough it out. Emily's not the "perfect victim" and it's important to share stories like that because it's true to life. You shouldn't have to be this "perfect victim" to have the harms done to you acknowledged and addressed.
Graphic: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny
Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Alcohol
Minor: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse
karina_dreamsinwords's review
4.0
“No one likes an angry woman— she’s the worst kind of villain.”
“We (women) are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way it transforms us. We cry to quell how we feel. Even when it’s trying to tell us something. Even when it has every right to exist.”
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexism and Body shaming
kaitlinshares's review
4.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness
Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming
coreyarch9's review
4.0
In My Body, Em Rata unpacks her relationship with her body - her source of fame, her source of security, and a piece of her that is constantly evolving as she grows.
And that's all this book is, and all it claims to be. There are other stories to dissect the particulars and modalities that are constantly in flux and in contradiction as Emily grows from a quintessential YOLO youth with pretty privilege to being thrust into the limelight as an example of what is (or what isn't) feminism, to legal cases literally determining the ownership of her likeness.
Extremely well-written and easy to connect to. I loved that there wasn't a clear angle for this book and that, instead, it embraced the conflict of different aspects of the relationship between person and body.
Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Stalking
Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming
ella1212's review against another edition
3.5
as this was a series of essays I thought there would be less about Emily herself and more about societies views on women’s bodies as a whole. It felt more like an autobiography rather than essays. I also wish that there had been more in the book about how modelling isn’t something for young women to aspire to. There was little regard for the demographic that would read this book and therefore came across as a bit lacking in self awareness and dare I say empathy for the reader themselves.
But otherwise fascinating insight into the entertainment industry’s role in the use of women’s bodies as a means of production, something we don’t get to own or reclaim 9 times out of 10.
Graphic: Eating disorder
Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content