Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Povere Creature! by Alasdair Gray

26 reviews

elliv's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Terminal illness, Abortion, Pregnancy, War

e11en's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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What keeps me from giving it 5 stars is that I fear the author did not intend what I got out of it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

issyd23's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Insane last chapter: Gray deconstructs & satirises not just the novel but class, love & objectivity in storytelling/history. Keen to see how the film compares! 3🧠 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Classism

adventures_in_bookstagram's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Interesting, occasionally surreal with effective metatextual elements and great performances by Kathryn Drysdale and Russ Bain as the narrators. The central concept is creepy and a bit gross (various men lusting after a woman with a child's brain), but those characters are presented as grotesque and/or pathetic so, to me, it reads as satire of male objectification of women (especially girls), especially when we get Bella/Victoria's perspective in the third act. I enjoyed the blend of genres, with unexpected dips into sci-fi (as a Frankenstein retelling), horror and magical realism (the Scream stands out), travel narratives and pseudo-historiography (I really enjoyed the preface and editor's notes, for example). There was also lots of commentary on classism, gender, misogyny (including medical misogyny), colonialism, regionalism (the main characters are <i>Scottish</i> and that matters!) and socialism and it was interesting to watch the naive and sheltered main character discover and reckon with the world's injustices; her long letter to the male narrator was one of my favourite sections of the novel.  It was also a lot funnier than I was expecting, though it ends on a kind of bitter-sweet note. Finally, I loved its strong sense of place and many references to places in Glasgow! This is a weird one, but well worth reading for its unusual narrative choices and fantastic heroine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Classism

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Abortion

The central concept flirts with pedophilia without technically actually featuring pedophilia, but some readers may not be comfortable with it. There are also incestuous overtones to the MC's relationship with her Guardian/father figure, according to the male narrator, though his perspective is later called into question. It only features relatively briefly, but the main character is also threatened with a clitoridectomy and shaming female sexual desire is a major theme, this being a novel set in the Victorian era about a sexually-active woman.

shay43geek's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content

leyma_01's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Suicide attempt

pigsjillyjiggs's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s supposedly a commentary on the suppression of women and hypocritical expectations etc etc ….but it seems to be mostly a bunch of men who want to be with the mentally innocent yet physically adult woman and be the one to “educate” her

Ok the last 2 hours of Poor Things has completely changed my mind lol did not see it coming. I’ve bumped it up from a 3 star to a 4 star and would actually recommend it for anyone wanting to read a science fiction social commentary about feminism and how much men suck lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death

emadisonc's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police. Truth, beauty and goodness are not mysterious, they are the commonest, most obvious, most essential facts of life, like sunlight, air and bread. Only folk whose heads are muddled by expensive educations think truth, beauty, goodness are rare private properties. Nature is more liberal. The universe keeps nothing essential from us—it is all present, all gift. God is the universe plus mind. Those who say God, or the universe, or nature is mysterious, are like those who call these things jealous or angry. They are announcing the state of their lonely, muddled minds.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism