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tiffyb's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
2.75
I love reading about all aspects of women’s health (and am currently pregnant!), so this book seemed right up my alley! I was especially excited to see the newest research and information available, from the perspective of a midwife.
This book sadly fell flat. It is well written, but dragged more and more each time I picked it up.
As many other reviews mention, the author was aggressive with her personal standpoints. I got exhausted with the number of ways that she tried to avoid saying “woman” in order to be inclusive. There was endless commentary on race, politics, transgenderism, and misogyny in relation to the womb (some would just call this book “woke” and “left”). It would have been fine to read about those things and learn more about each of them (just gone those topics their own chapter for heavens sake!!), but this book was undeniably more focused on society than science.
Every chapter, as I got my hopes up to learn something new about the chapter’s topic, the author would dive into a rant about women’s bodies being ignored/ stigmatized or the history of “powerful white males” who made up theories about women’s health or maybe even the personal story of a woman’s emotional journey relating to the chapter topic. I really just wanted information, but this book consistently fell short (often not even including basic information about the topic at hand).
Overall, there were some fantastic tidbits, and I don’t regret reading this book. But I would have preferred a much shorter book with more useful and interesting information about the uterus.
*** Also noticeably missing from this book are charts, graphs, diagrams, pictures, or anatomical drawings of any kind. It seems like a huge oversight and again, speaks to the fact that maybe this book wasn’t really written for us to learn anything scientific…?
This book sadly fell flat. It is well written, but dragged more and more each time I picked it up.
As many other reviews mention, the author was aggressive with her personal standpoints. I got exhausted with the number of ways that she tried to avoid saying “woman” in order to be inclusive. There was endless commentary on race, politics, transgenderism, and misogyny in relation to the womb (some would just call this book “woke” and “left”). It would have been fine to read about those things and learn more about each of them (just gone those topics their own chapter for heavens sake!!), but this book was undeniably more focused on society than science.
Every chapter, as I got my hopes up to learn something new about the chapter’s topic, the author would dive into a rant about women’s bodies being ignored/ stigmatized or the history of “powerful white males” who made up theories about women’s health or maybe even the personal story of a woman’s emotional journey relating to the chapter topic. I really just wanted information, but this book consistently fell short (often not even including basic information about the topic at hand).
Overall, there were some fantastic tidbits, and I don’t regret reading this book. But I would have preferred a much shorter book with more useful and interesting information about the uterus.
*** Also noticeably missing from this book are charts, graphs, diagrams, pictures, or anatomical drawings of any kind. It seems like a huge oversight and again, speaks to the fact that maybe this book wasn’t really written for us to learn anything scientific…?
annabunce's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75