Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles

4 reviews

daylajane's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Genocide, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Infertility

macknificent's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

1.0

Despite what the author may claim in the foreword, this book is a "history" of White Feminism and American propaganda. In other words, it's surface level and racist as hell. 

Despite the language of their oppression being co-opted at every opportunity, BIPOC are rarely mentioned throughout the book. When BIPOC are mentioned, it is to serve one of two purposes, depending on their gender: 
- Non-white men, of course, are the most violent of oppressors
- Non-white women show up as voices of wisdom to support whatever actions the white femme is taking at that moment. 

The "history" isn't well researched either. Off the top of my head, I recall a whole bit about chastity belts, the use of which has been debunked. Of course, as a particularly cruel "invention," their creation was attributed to MENA men.

To sum up, if you say things like, "We are the daughters of the witches you didn't burn," or still wear your pussy hat with pride, you'll like this book. For everybody else, skip it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Sexism, Abortion, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Infertility, and Infidelity

Minor: Slavery and Pedophilia

inkdrinkermal's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

2.75

Informative, but I found myself getting lost in the quick switches between stories and anecdotes. The preface was awful and should be removed. It didn't reflect well on the rest of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion, Colonisation, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, and Racism

zoevstheworld's review against another edition

3.0

this book was okay. I feel like I learned the most/was most interested in the neolithic history section. the while book could have been a lot more intersectional (though i get that it's an old book, maybe a modern release would be more interesting). being a women's history, I would have thought that it would have had much more insight into the daily lives, traditions, and communities of women over time. instead it was mostly a record of women's oppression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Colonisation