Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo

25 reviews

balfies's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

Ugh, I LOVED this. A beautifully lyrical, very moving, intimate and often times haunting story about three. American women's relationships to sex, self realisation, desire, and transgression.

Lina is unloved by her husband but has taken up sex with her high school sweetheart, Maggie takes her teacher to trial for an inappropriate relationship, and former rich girl Sloane loves cucking her husband as he watches...

Completely absorbing, bewitching, moving accounts of womanhood, I can already feel this one will stay with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, and Sexual content

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

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

pernillelsk's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Infidelity

vollerenate'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

redewhurst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual content, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

neelafehla's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

kassy182's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

all i have to say is that men are awful and time and again they prove how awful they can be and often innately are. women that support awful men with the knowledge of the extent of their awfulness are just as bad if not worse. 
women deserve more. women have never been given what they deserve and they deserve so much more than a man can even conceive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Car accident, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, and Pedophilia

giulia_bis's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Vomit, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry