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A review by emilyatmidnight
Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden
1.0
I really didn't like this book.
She starts out by basically saying "if you care about your body at all, stop using hormonal birth control, and if you don't? Don't even bother reading this book. Stop now" but then paragraphs later says that there are many circumstances when hormonal birth control really is the best option, but she down plays it as much as possible.
She also recommends the least effective form of birth control, the rhythm method, telling us that doctor's tell you know to use it because they don't think you are smart enough to do it, but you are. But all the while, she makes constant quips like "I bet you didn't know this" "I bet you didn't learn this in health class" "I'll bet you never understood this before."
Additionally, she suggests the rhythm method like it's the end all be all and that hormonal birth control was just something they did to put women down. But like, having control yourself over when you have a baby (without having to stop having sex) is the height of female liberation. I have a friend who tried the rhythm method but her husband pushed her to have sex anyway and she is having a baby during nursing school now. My friend was shamed by this book into thinking that the only method that is respectful of your body is the rhythm method and in the process she lost control of her body. I think turning people off of options is dangerous.
I have many other thoughts, but I can't sort through them now.
I could only get through the first half (part 1) before I felt so completely talked down to and talked over that I had to put it down.
I'd give it zero stars if I could.
She starts out by basically saying "if you care about your body at all, stop using hormonal birth control, and if you don't? Don't even bother reading this book. Stop now" but then paragraphs later says that there are many circumstances when hormonal birth control really is the best option, but she down plays it as much as possible.
She also recommends the least effective form of birth control, the rhythm method, telling us that doctor's tell you know to use it because they don't think you are smart enough to do it, but you are. But all the while, she makes constant quips like "I bet you didn't know this" "I bet you didn't learn this in health class" "I'll bet you never understood this before."
Additionally, she suggests the rhythm method like it's the end all be all and that hormonal birth control was just something they did to put women down. But like, having control yourself over when you have a baby (without having to stop having sex) is the height of female liberation. I have a friend who tried the rhythm method but her husband pushed her to have sex anyway and she is having a baby during nursing school now. My friend was shamed by this book into thinking that the only method that is respectful of your body is the rhythm method and in the process she lost control of her body. I think turning people off of options is dangerous.
I have many other thoughts, but I can't sort through them now.
I could only get through the first half (part 1) before I felt so completely talked down to and talked over that I had to put it down.
I'd give it zero stars if I could.