Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

100 reviews

cat12345's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective fast-paced

• 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Ableism, Confinement, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Misogyny, Death, and Homophobia

hauntedantiqueshop's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.75

This is ultimately one of my favorite horror stories.

We get an unreliable narrator, suffering from postpartum depression and really just being punished for it. Her husband/physician doesn’t actually believe anything is wrong with her yet isn’t allowing her to do anything besides stay in this decaying room, including anything as simple express herself in writing. She immediately convinces herself that the room is a nursery but it’s more likely that it was used to house/imprison an insane person.  She has no escape or outlet besides staring at this funky wallpaper. Of course it’s going to start warping and her mind will play tricks on her. It’s almost funny that he’s so shocked in the end that he faints. What did he expect?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

eva_vva's review

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

rubyeve's review

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

5.0

"And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads." 

Enraging, terrifying, masterful. Written about a woman pushed towards insanity after being put on the 'rest cure' following the birth of her child, this story is not only a revealing gut punch from the past but horrifyingly relevant. 

Sharp yet thoughtful writing and excellent choice of register were both executed perfectly for the story's purpose. We watch a woman guilty of her lack of domestic purpose who undergoes her husband's medical gaslighting almost achieve enlightenment in insanity through growing fearful of her husband, seeing those subjecting her to the rest cure as the irrational, guilty ones and realising the extensive numbers of women subjected to the same treatment through the beautifully crafted, mirroring symbol of entrapment and patriarchy - the yellow wallpaper. 

We see the wallpaper go from a passing thought, to a reflection, to all-consuming entertainment, to engulfing the narrator as an actual part of it in her mind - a thought-provoking development symbolising the inescapable nature of patriarchy even for a  woman who has become a part of something so irrational and unconforming as the yellow wallpaper itself. I found it hugely interesting that the 'rest cure' created a woman so damaged a victim of medical misogyny as well as the opposite of the pacified woman intended by the treatment as our narrator becomes what was a pattern of the maddeningly illogical wallpaper design which conforms to no set of expectations or conventions. 

Thought-provoking genius. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

tocattaandfugue's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, Ableism, and Misogyny

celevstial's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

they see me creepin, they hatin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Misogyny, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

danimacuk's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Confinement and Misogyny

amusinglyuseless's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

Properly eerie without being too overly scary for people who are interested in dipping their toes in horror without going all the way in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Sexism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Gaslighting

felynmarie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

4.0

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

It clearly shows that some people don't take mental health issues seriously, especially women and new mothers who are currently battling postpartum depression after giving birth to their child.

This short story truly breaks my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Confinement

Moderate: Misogyny

jocauliflower's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

the uncertainty of whether the condition of the room could be the narrator's doing or not kept me on the edge of my seat up until the end. the yellow wallpaper itself likely containing arsenic and speeding along the main characters deterioration hurts my heart so much. truly a testiment to how women's mental health was and often is still treated now.

an absolutely heartbreaking book. beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Misogyny