Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

39 reviews

ritapons's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Rape

miriamahs's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Car accident, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

nisanatreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.5

It's definitely a good book that depicts the story of three women and their relationship with themselves, with men and in general with the world. The author obviously put a lot of work into researching their stories and at the same time wrote it in a way that made me feel fully emerged in them. The only problem I had with it was that it lacked representation of WoC and at times was a bit to graphic for my taste. But I guess it's also kinda the point to be so crass, since what happened to these real women was graphic in every sense of the word. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Rape

leedom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Body shaming, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

javirobles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual assault

Minor: Body shaming

clephairy's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

2.5

i found the premise and motivation of the book really interesting and promising. sadly it fell short. i think that stories told were certainly insightful but i think they werent told with the intentional nuance of liberating desire. it was not at all seperated from men and patriarchal concepts of conforming to gendered ideals. however i think the story concerning aaron knodel was not at all told with the particular compassion nor understanding that it deserved, as a 17yr old when reading about a teacher student relationship with someone my age i am appalled by the inclusion of graphic depictions of the assault that took place. furthermore the internalised misogyny throughout the whole scene in court was not cool and fun or anything that should be celebrated. 

im glad people felt carthasis and do not want to take that away from anyone. heal in the ways you can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Incest

luelle_'s review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

4.0

This was a really tough read. I thought I'd fly through it but I just couldn't... It's the truth of the thing. It's important, but read with care. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest and Pedophilia

janhasread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I did a full review of this on my Instagram (@janhasread, shameless plug). But the basics of this is that you have to go into this book without specific expectations because I’ve noticed that the description can be misleading for some people.

This was really well written, sometimes you have to remind yourself that it is actually a nonfiction books. This makes it an easy intro to nonfiction as I’ve rarely read any in the past. And I thoroughly enjoyed it so I can’t wait for the next. 

The main theme I took from this book, which focuses on the sex lives of three women, is that the men in our life are a big part of our lives. In this women we saw how women deal with the men in their lives. How they fall in love, how they come to be with these men, and how they eventually see the worst parts of these men at times. We also how they deal with seeing the worst in the men they know. 

My only gripe was the sample size being obviously so low. It cannot possibly reflect “American Women” as the description says. And there was no diversity in these three women. They were all white. So this may be the experience of these three white women in American, but it definitely cannot be applied to more than them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity

adrianafetzer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

emelymarie's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Sexual violence