A review by ssione5
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory

informative

5.0

Skip what you need to, but this is in my top 3 nonfictions of all time. Brilliantly researched, absolutely fantastic. The brutality is directly quoting sources from the times and makes clear the seeds of modern patriarchy and misogyny. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Genocide, Lesbophobia, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual content, Slavery, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Transphobia, Violence, War, Animal death, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Classism, Colonisation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child abuse