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Girlhood by Melissa Febos

21 reviews

hannahyorkey's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Stalking, Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Eating disorder

joensign's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Pedophilia

Minor: Colonisation, Racism, and Transphobia

bella_ruth's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexism

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Bullying, Dysphoria, and Suicidal thoughts

carriepond's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Girlhood by Melissa Febos is an essay collection about growing up in a female body that I picked up after reading two essay collections where Febos's essays were among my favorites. I am so glad I did because I consider this essay collection a must-read. 

Reading these essays was cathartic and made me feel seen deeply-- there were so many times that Febos articulated an experience or feeling that I had so perfectly that it was as if she had pulled it from deep within me and then voiced it better than I ever could. The pages of my copy are full of underlining, of sentiments that resonated, or were beautifully put, or that I wanted to return to again. I will be thinking about my favorite essays, "The Mirror Test," "Thesmorphia," and "Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself," for a long time, but the entire collection is truly wonderful.

I highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

helinae's review against another edition

The topic is familiar to me and I did not feel like reading another book about it. Would recommend if the general themes are unfamiliar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

avasbookmark's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexism, and Stalking

snowiceblackfruit77's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Stalking, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Addiction, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Self harm

bashsbooks's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.5

A great collection of essays on Being (Perceived As) A Woman Under Patriarchy and all the fucky wucky stuff that comes along with that. A little more binary than what I usually prefer, but Febos' level of nuance makes up for the generalizations. The tagline on my copy of the book suggests that it's a good read for women of all kinds - mothers, daughters, sisters - but I think men would benefit a lot by reading it as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Sexism, Cursing, Misogyny, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Body shaming

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Racism, Racial slurs, and Death of parent

studiouspoppy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

I really liked it, it wasn’t at all what I expected (probably bc I didn’t read what it was about before starting it), but a nice surprise. I don’t think it was that memorable, and the reason why I didn’t rate it higher, but it was really good and I’d definitely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Rape

Minor: Drug abuse

kaimo007's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The prose of girlhood really drives these essays. I spent a long time reflecting over the way she worded her feelings and experiences and loved the simple and complex descriptions alike. I feel like Melissa could take my most difficult thoughts and put them into words in a way no one else could. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Drug abuse