Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich

75 reviews

alex1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

siobhanward's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

For the past few weeks, my Tiktok has been FULL of clips from the Netflix adaptation of this book, which was enough to make me curious about it. The book itself was ok (though clearly Netflix added a lot of their own content to it - almost nothing I've seen of the series is actually from the book). I understand other reviewers' surprise that Stephanie was 28 when the events of the book began, but I will also take a moment to acknowledge that while I'm currently 28, I have a huge amount of privileges that she has not and comparing where I am at 28 to where Land was is not useful.

While I was definitely frustrated with Land's decisions at times, I'll also say that I'm really not someone who can judge, having never been in her position. I will say that my critique of the book is a bit more to do with how things were sometimes laid out (some things got rushed through while others felt dragged out), but the book was solid and Land told her story in a really interesting way. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

nick_00's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

makaylasanafaye's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse

museum_owl's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

God was this good and impactful. Just a really clear look at how poverty looks in this godforsaken country, and how you can't "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" if the system is set up to make sure that you can't move forward. And Ms. Land didn't even have systemic racism working against her! Just. incredible and so important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

maddiet425's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

juliarenae's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

showed the reality, raw, and honest

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Classism

frmeden's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Pregnancy

tillycrane's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse