Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

29 reviews

diannaphantomfiction's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

My only issue with this book was the length. While I understand telling the full story, at times the chapters seemed to drag. 

Otherwise, it has been a long time since I read a story that made me feel all the emotions possible, from disgust to hope. This was an absolutely wonderful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Ableism, Death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Body horror, and Cancer

Moderate: Infertility, Body horror, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Domestic abuse

This is all true, so it will feel fairly heavy at times, but all of this present, sometimes in graphic detail

milesss's review

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Multiple times while reading I was moved to tears. An incredible account I could hardly put down. Engaging and emotional with attention to detail and honesty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Terminal illness, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, and Cancer

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Eating disorder, Infertility, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion, War, and Suicidal thoughts

rosemaryandrue's review

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

Radium is a fad in early twentieth century America, and consequently makes for booming business for numerous large corporations. So when employees of the United States Radium Corporation start falling ill with a mysterious, horrific disease, the industry scrambles to cover things up.

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Cancer, Infertility, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma

irishrose7777's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

danimacuk's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Medical content, Misogyny, and Sexism

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

this was so informative. i think this is one of the most accessible non-fiction books i have ever read. this is because it was written in a narrative way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexism, Cancer, Gaslighting, Gore, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Infertility, Medical trauma, Blood, and Grief

frogsinacoat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexism, Classism, Death, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Body horror, Sexism, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Infertility, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Domestic abuse

r_clark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Infertility, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Sexism

bad_bookworm_h's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Classism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

Minor: Abortion