Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

37 reviews

stephyrm's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Murder, Confinement, Blood, Chronic illness, Classism, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Grief, Infertility, and Misogyny

elizabethwb's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

I'm in awe. Lisa See's writing is breathtaking. Her research is in depth and never-ending. Even the Acknowledgments gave me a lump in my throat. Read this book. Savor it. I'm sad that it's over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Classism, Infertility, Pregnancy, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Child death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Bullying, Abortion, Cancer, and Adult/minor relationship

This novel is historically written based on extensive research about late 15th and early 16th centuries in China.

moon_peach's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I will say at first I thought there were romantic feelings between Yunxian and Meiling and honestly by the end I still felt that, either way the girls (later women) are soulmates.
This story is a feminist one. Not like most stories where the single woman defies all of society's expectations. She still follows much of what is expected of her, including foot binding, but the story is that of supporting women in a society where they have so little. She eventually manages to empathize with every woman she encounters even if she herself would not do what they would. 
It is not on sharing gruesome details of illnesses or the sexism. But if you can manage, it is very worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abortion, Misogyny, Sexism, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

esmemarti14's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Classism, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

aadig's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Sexism, Body horror, and Medical content

bookworm356's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Blood, Death, and Infertility

Moderate: Gore and Child death

ashkitty93's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 The opening and closing (and I believe, legitimate) pieces by Tan Yunxian's nephew framed this nicely, and while I loved the portrayal of Yunxian and especially Meiling and the bond they had, this bordered on trauma porn a bit more than I liked. It also seemed like Lisa See packed in way too many elements and it negatively affected the pacing; there's the straightforward historical fiction, plus a (murder) mystery, and then various nasty bits, some of which didn't seem warranted, at least in the amount of detail given.

cw for foot binding, pregnancy/miscarriage/stillbirth and other death, blood, vivid smallpox depiction, corporal punishment, parasites, and probably a few more that I've forgotten or blocked out.

Nicely read by Jennifer Lim. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Pregnancy, Death, Miscarriage, and Medical content

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

pagesoiree's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Sexism

easta98's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Violence, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Child death, Blood, Death, Infertility, Death of parent, Sexism, and Pregnancy

ac_rva's review

informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Sexism, Medical content, Torture, Abortion, Vomit, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Death of parent