Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

10 reviews

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Racial slurs, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Slavery, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Misogyny, Infertility, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Torture, Terminal illness, Racism, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Classism, Colonisation, and Death

cleot's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

My only criticism is that several of the quotes and anecdotes are repeated several times in their entirety, rather than just referencing the prior passage. Otherwise a very informative and important work. Brace yourself for some rough reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child abuse, Rape, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Child death, Medical trauma, Racism, Violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Misogyny, Medical content, Cancer, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abortion, Xenophobia, and Classism

Minor: Infertility

Content warnings are in line with the experience of black and immigrant women in slavery and indenture who were used without their consent to serve as subjects in research in gynecology via non-anaesthetized surgeries, to include accounts of the abuse and sexual violence they experienced in advance of seeking medical care. Very graphic.

micaelacccc's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Infertility, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Slavery, Racial slurs, Violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Sexual assault

camille_abelanet's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I thought this was a very well done book. It's shorter than I had anticipated, so I blazed through it in one day, but I really enjoyed learning about the history of gynecology, especially as it relates to race and gender.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Slavery, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Infertility, Medical content, Racism, and Sexual assault

lyzz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Slavery, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Medical trauma, Abortion, Medical content, Torture, Rape, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Infertility, Grief, and Terminal illness

notapenguin's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Slavery, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Infertility, and Rape

Minor: Cancer

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Slavery, and Child death

Moderate: Infertility

junkyard's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Violence

isabellarob73's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abortion

ashlyn's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Slavery

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Excrement, Infertility, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence