Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Das Archiv der Träume by Carmen Maria Machado

48 reviews

salt_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Body shaming, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, and Grief

rachaelallyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

lycheejelly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Cancer, Cursing, Dementia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

idontstandbymostofmyoldratings's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

jojo_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

invaderlinz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

plant_the_read's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Biphobia

Minor: Misogyny

adoras's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

In the Dream House is told in a unique style that combines memoir, media and literary criticism, and research of documented lesbian domestic abuse. In it, Carmen Maria Machado is trying to find the language to tell the story of an abusive relationship, something made difficult both because of the abuse and because, in a relationship between two women, there is an utter lack of acknowledgement that abuse happens.

The book is broken up into short chapters with headings that will examine her story through a certain lens. Some of these set the events in a place ("The Dream House as Apartment in Philadelphia"), while some will speak about some piece of media that gives context to an abusive and manipulative relationship and its effects, at least for Machado (this ranges from the movie Gaslight to the folktale "Bluebeard" to an episode of Star Trek). Others think about more common tropes, styles, or themes ("The Dream House as Idioms", "The Dream House as Schrodinger's Cat", "The Dream House as a Plot Twist"). In the prologue, Machado talks about "archival silence," in which stories are erased or destroyed or never spoken about. These many different chapters are a way of telling her story, as well as unearthing many others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Fatphobia

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Misogyny