Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

19 reviews

paytonnmoore's review

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Rape, and Sexual content

kmacdo23's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

8675309mp's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

annamary54's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I struggled to get into this book, but the mirror test got me hooked. this really puts into words what it feels like to be a girl in a woman’s body. at times i was extremely uncomfortable reading this, in the best way. it forced me to reflect on my own life every essay. will be recommending to all of my friends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Drug use, Body shaming, Sexual content, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

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

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

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

svmreads's review

There was nothing inherently wrong with this book - in fact, it was incredibly well-written. However, I had a hard time staying with it and couldn’t see myself returning to it anytime soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

milliemillz's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction

cheezh8er's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Drug use, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Addiction, and Sexual violence