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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
120 reviews
viccoll's review
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abortion
mondovertigo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: War
Minor: Abortion
miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition
4.75
I didnt like a lot of the writing but i think a lot more people need to know about this and i respect her for writing it
Its often infuriating and hard to read and so fucking sad but this narrative needs to be told. The way that women and workers are constantly and consistently ignored for company gain does make you start to lose all hope in humanity thought.
That the worst possible scenario was barely listened to (and arguably not listened to) leaves little room for hope
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting
mightymegan25's review
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
rosemaryandrue's review
4.0
I've heard the story of the Radium Girls before, but I did not really know the details of the struggles that the women went through, and how thoroughly they were betrayed by their employers. The author wrote in the afterword that she wanted to put the stories of the women at the center of the tale, and I thought she succeeded in this remarkably, really bringing home the horror of the situation. I also learned for the first time how these women contributed with their lives and deaths to the study and management of radioactive elements to this very day.
However, I thought the end was abrupt - after the death of Catherine Wolfe Donahue, we whizz through the subsequent court cases - I suppose because the endless appeals have been covered in depth elsewhere, but I wish we got some more detail there about how it was achieved.
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
irishrose7777's review
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
danimacuk's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Medical content
alexisgarcia's review
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
scorpi07's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma
Minor: Domestic abuse
raneyak's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy