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A review by thatsssorachael
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I didn't really know what to expect with this one. The only thing I knew about it was a girl got radium poisoning so bad her jaw fell off. Not totally true, it sort of..crumbled, and it wasn't just one girl.
This was a lot denser than I thought it would be, and I found myself needing to slow down my reading to fully grasp all the information, names, and emotions of the story. It was absolutely fascinating and horrifying, do not skip the post script. This is a direct look at how capitalism views it's (poor, female) workers, and especially so in the 1920s. While a lot hasn't changed, at least in this day and age we get work place safety and a governing body to go to when our right to a safe workplace has been violated. That's in huge part, at least in the USA, to these women.
Highly recommend
TW gore, cancer, miscarriage, domestic violence
This was a lot denser than I thought it would be, and I found myself needing to slow down my reading to fully grasp all the information, names, and emotions of the story. It was absolutely fascinating and horrifying, do not skip the post script. This is a direct look at how capitalism views it's (poor, female) workers, and especially so in the 1920s. While a lot hasn't changed, at least in this day and age we get work place safety and a governing body to go to when our right to a safe workplace has been violated. That's in huge part, at least in the USA, to these women.
Highly recommend
TW gore, cancer, miscarriage, domestic violence
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Cancer
Minor: Miscarriage and Domestic abuse