Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

12 reviews

hmih's review against another edition

informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Misogyny, Sexism, Rape, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Bullying, Sexual assault, Cancer, and Sexism

Minor: Drug abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Cancer, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Suicide, Racism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Sexism, Sexual assault, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Death of parent, Classism, Body shaming, Rape, and Gaslighting

samburkhouse's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Infidelity, Cancer, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gaslighting, Medical content, Racism, Suicide, and Death of parent

lindsayerin's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Death of parent

franceselsie's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Cancer, and Misogyny

Minor: Cursing, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Death

lilycollings's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I understand why this book is so polarising but if you take this book as a work of fiction, how lives may have played out in a parallel universe it's a really good read. I did skip the more intimate scenes, it felt wrong reading these about real people.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicide, Sexual content, and Misogyny

placebogirl's review

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Death of parent

ifersinklings's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 This was an interesting story. It is an alternate history where Hilary didn't marry Bill Clinton. The first 30% of the book seems like it loosely followed their original story (I say loosely because I'm personally not sure of the early history.) Then it all goes off the rails. This is where it threw me off and kind of took me out of the story. There were some dates that weren't accurate to things that happened in real life, and those little things really bothered me. But I think that is a personal issue with alternate history stories. They just don't really work for me. If this book had been 100% fictional and not alternate history, I think it would have been a 5 star book for me. It is definitely worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

hazelgirl21's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent and Terminal illness

lelderkin's review

inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Too soon for Hillary Clinton fanfiction? Also, I never needed to think this much about Hillary and Bill’s sex life. And there are some downright weird choices here...if Clinton had never been president, the world basically remains exactly the same? Except Bernie Sanders doesn’t exist? Just feels lazy. I’m also annoyed that there was like hat-tipping toward Hillary‘s racism without a real engagement with it. All that said, though...this was fun and slightly ridiculous and well written. It’s just weird that this book exists.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Misogyny, and Suicide

penelopereads's review

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Great story. A bit cringey with the fictionalised sex scenes and well known people but I like Sittenfeld’s no-nonsense approach to writing said scenes. I liked playing ‘what if’ and I found it quite funny at times. It wasn’t all glowing and fan-girly, there were moments where I really had to take a step back and think: ‘wow, that was *questionable*’ or ‘wow, that was morally grey!’ But I appreciated that.
It was actually inspiring and made me mourn for what the world could have had the past four years. (Funnily enough I’m writing this in the early hours of January 20, 2021.)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Cancer, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, and Misogyny