Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

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

43 reviews

queenkath32's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

The Radium Girls follows the absolutely unbelievable story of the girls who were poisoned by the companies they worked for and their fight for justice.
This book is an absolutely heartbreaking and inspiring story about a group of women's fight to try to hold companies accountable for the poisoning that they suffered due to the companies lying to them about the harmful effects of radium. This book was an absolutely heartbreaking and wild ride to read.
Watching these women having to not only suffer to find a diagnosis and be misdiagnosed was already heartbreaking. But also watching them having to fight tooth and nail to just be able to get any sort of compensation and help from the companies was absolutely rage inducing. The way these companies lied about these women and their conditions and what they were suffering while they were sitting there, in pain and dying, was absolutely mind blowing.
This book is such an important book to read because it's not just about the women's pain. It's about their resilience and how they worked together despite the odds to try to do right by others who would suffer like them.
I think this is a very important book to read and it should be read by everyone. The way Kate Moore handled this was so deft and well done. She showed so much respect and care for these women and their stories. I teared up in her descriptions and she showed their courage so well. I cannot recommend this book enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage

kafarm6's review against another edition

challenging informative sad tense medium-paced

3.5

It was just so gross 🫠
But I do love learning how a) all arguments we hear today are old af b) every bad event in history ever has had at least one person saying “this is bad you should stop”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

reg_litbytes's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

 

 TLDR: An emotional take on true historical events focusing on the humanity of the victims while still being informative. Leans a bit into the fictional. Went on a little too long and felt repetitive. I zoned out a few times.

TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic descriptions of disease
 
 THE GOOD: I truly appreciate what the author is doing in this book - focusing on giving life to the women who suffered. The stories were laid out in a way that I felt how the suffering of each were all interconnected. I could feel the hopefulness, the grief, the helplessness, and the triumph of each victim that were given the spotlight. Lives and futures were ruined and I found myself getting mad and frustrated along with the victims. I wish I could look at pictures of each of them as they were being described - before and after the exposure. The goal of the author was to humanize the victims in contrast to how the other books covering the same topic has done - more scientific. So do take note that if you intend on reading this, it can often lean into the fictional. It does this by filling in some details that the author is unlikely to have known (ex. what the victims have been thinking and feeling apart from what they themselves have written). 

THE BAD:
It went on too long that I found myself, at times, zoning out. The epilogue was proof enough that this didn't have to be as long as it is. Or maybe… it was meant more to be read on print than on audiobook? It got repetitive but understandably so because the victims all went through, more or less, the same horrors. Unfortunately, halfway through, I just couldn't wait to find out how they were able to resolve the issues and the impact on society (which the epilogue was able to cover).
 
 THE NARRATION:
The narration was mostly fine but not something I would remember in the long term. I didn't feel comfortable speeding it up to more than 1.5x; but then again I don't usually speed up audiobooks.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

dobermaier's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

Fantastic read - I really appreciate the focus and care for telling the women’s personal stories. Absolutely horrifying tho. It made ME squeamish at times and I’m a huge horror/body horror person. Learn your labor history, friends. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infertility and Misogyny

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

This story follows the lives, careers, court battles, and deaths of "the Radium Girls," women who used radium to paint watches, clocks, and equipment starting just before World War I, and moving into World War II. Constantly lied to about the dangers of radium by the companies they worked for, countless women were poisoned by the radioactive material. A tragic tale of young women fighting for answers and justice, this book focuses on the women themselves, not just their battles in court, but the personal hardships so many of them had to endure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This was a reread because IDK this book has just been on my mind a lot lately? Idk why not it was just as good as I remember. I still can't believe--but also very much can believe--the absolute HELL  that these women went through all in the name of capitalism and all while the people who made them suffer so much did their damnedest to obfuscate and deny everything about it. And how the law was just absolutely against them for so much of the way just because this was a novel type of poisoning and it happened to women. The research on this book is so thorough, but the author also does a great job of letting you get to know these women, the lives they led, and their personalities. It makes it all that much more real and gutting to read their stories. Fuck capitalism. That's all.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

sehenry20's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

cursed10fold's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Terminal illness

Moderate: Misogyny and Gaslighting