Reviews tagging 'Torture'

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

3 reviews

kira20's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Lots of great information, but feels dated. Also, it can be very emotionally draining even though the information is important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Rape, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

clairet386's review against another edition

Was kind of disjointed, wasn’t sure of the central argument, and I didn’t feel like I was learning the things about women in history that I wanted to

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexism

aboone's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.75

Informative, critical, work on an important topic. As much as I admire the book, it was a difficult read because of the intense violence, oppression, and dismal treatment of women it reports on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Incest, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Sexual violence, Torture, Abortion, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Excrement, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Medical content, Mental illness, War, Classism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault