Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

43 reviews

libraryloverlea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death, Suicide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

1moodreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Lisa Taddeo follows three women's lives in an effort to unmask women's desires. 

The audiobook has a full cast of narration and the author reads the author's note and closing. The other three narrators are perfect and really elevate the audiobook. 

The book follows Maggie, Sloane, and Lena. All three women are very different, but we see that they each deal with the oppressive nature of living in patriarchal society. The implications of their shared reality manifest differently in each woman's life (check trigger warnings!). 

The book can be summed up with the following quote from one of Lena's opening chapters

 Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Incest, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Rape

eemadeeberry's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Infidelity, Cursing, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment, Incest, Medical content, and Racism

melrosemeltdown's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

mia_merrill's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death of parent, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

saracatalyst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Death of parent, and Incest

sydapel's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

While I understand the intention behind this book and what it's trying to convey, it does so through so narrow of a lens it's downright disrespectful. With a minor exception, these women identify as white, cisgender and heterosexual, with descriptions of sexual desires that only differ in their minutae, and always come back to whatever man they are "in love" with. There's very little attempt to unpack the abuse (mainly emotional, but borderline physical) done to them or the systems of patriarchy that led to this, in favor of in depth descriptions of intimate encounters with, again, one, maybe two guys. It made me both angry and not a good enough woman, which is a new low. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexism, Rape, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Bullying, and Eating disorder

Minor: Racism

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Bullying, Car accident, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

berightbec's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Addiction, Car accident, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse