Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

30 reviews

katieolive's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Suicide, Car accident, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

squeakfan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This book was so well written, however the content absolutely destroyed me, so difficult to rate/review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, Eating disorder, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Suicide

sienasofw's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexism

abisnail564's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

Loved this. Challenging and thought-provoking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Death, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Addiction, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

emma_ekb's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

4.5

beautiful, haunting and raw, if at times a bit convoluted. went on a little too long. i loved the narrative format, made nonfiction so readable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

balfies's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

Ugh, I LOVED this. A beautifully lyrical, very moving, intimate and often times haunting story about three. American women's relationships to sex, self realisation, desire, and transgression.

Lina is unloved by her husband but has taken up sex with her high school sweetheart, Maggie takes her teacher to trial for an inappropriate relationship, and former rich girl Sloane loves cucking her husband as he watches...

Completely absorbing, bewitching, moving accounts of womanhood, I can already feel this one will stay with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, and Sexual content

mia_merrill's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death of parent, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

orlagal's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

sydapel's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

While I understand the intention behind this book and what it's trying to convey, it does so through so narrow of a lens it's downright disrespectful. With a minor exception, these women identify as white, cisgender and heterosexual, with descriptions of sexual desires that only differ in their minutae, and always come back to whatever man they are "in love" with. There's very little attempt to unpack the abuse (mainly emotional, but borderline physical) done to them or the systems of patriarchy that led to this, in favor of in depth descriptions of intimate encounters with, again, one, maybe two guys. It made me both angry and not a good enough woman, which is a new low. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexism, Rape, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Bullying, and Eating disorder

Minor: Racism

pernillelsk's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Infidelity