Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

41 reviews

cozy_gh0st's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, War, Rape, Sexual violence, Gore, Murder, and Blood

frankieclc's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Sexism, Violence, Rape, Death, Pedophilia, and Murder

junglejelly's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Such an amazing book to delve into a few the women of Greek myths. A great springboard to look into other similar texts, too.

Haynes explores various themes and arguments for each woman, linking a few of them together (it's Greek myth, everyone's related).

Not a full 5 stars for me as sometimes I felt I as the reader needed to know the myths better to understand some of the points Haynes made.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Murder, Rape, Violence, Incest, Child death, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Cannibalism

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

i wish this was longer, i felt like it was a synopsis of stories. it just felt a little surface level and i wish there was a deeper discussion on the topics and myths. overall, i think this is a great starter book for those wanting to get into greek mythology and retellings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

hfleur's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child death

Each event is not talked about in harrowing detail but definitely saddening/triggering in places.

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder, Child death, and Death

Minor: War

bookaholic_in_wonderland's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Death, War, and Murder

kers_tin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent, War, Death, Child death, Murder, and Suicide

rbacon's review against another edition

funny informative reflective fast-paced

Loved this! It goes into so much depth on commonly overlooked women in Greek mythology and just adds so much context and background to their characters. Women have always been in the centre of stories, but we seem to have forgotten it and written them out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, Murder, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, War, Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Incest, and Death

chilivanilli28's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death, and Kidnapping