Reviews tagging 'Medical content'
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich
12 reviews
idesofmarch's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Car accident
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Classism
Minor: Mental illness and Vomit
miggyfool's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Classism, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Misogyny
Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Suicide, Addiction, Drug use, and Child abuse
missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Classism
Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, and Car accident
redefiningrachel's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Classism, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child abuse, Body shaming, Cancer, Abandonment, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Misogyny
Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Grief
kshertz's review against another edition
3.75
Minor: Car accident, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship
lynn_x5452's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Medical content
mysterymom46's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Car accident
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy
Minor: Gaslighting
charley0796's review against another edition
4.0
The book is similar but different, both highlight the battles of the system, the hoops that have to be jumped through. In differences - one it starts when she moves to transitional housing, so you do not see the initial abuse or difficulties navigating the system. Second, it highlights the hoops she has to jump through and the cycle of poverty she can’t break free from that I had never considered before. As a third difference, it’s more raw, not romanticised or dramatised - Stephanie makes a lot of really valid and understandable decisions. She moves in with a boyfriend who turns out to exploit her financially, cycles of abuse that are actually really common in abuse even with support and education around breaking the cycle. She then is determined to stay single and manage on her own, using men just for keeping off the loneliness, something I know one single parent with very similar circumstances is doing at the moment. Choosing to go on holiday rather than moving home, this I can also understand, after what had been years with no break and living on a shoestring it makes sense that she bought items for herself. I appreciate her including this - she could have hidden it! It’s different to what I think I might do, but I’ve never been in her shoes. I’ve read lots of reviews, especially on goodreads, criticising her as a ‘whiny, privileged woman’ and people being shocked that at 28 she had no savings or career. She described working in a tourist town, where jobs centred around this - thus there are few jobs you can make a career out of. In addition, it sounds like her upbringing was pretty unsupportive and also in poverty - meaning career planning may not have been instilled on her (the tv show really exemplified this) as does the fact they lived in a trailer initially. She was on birth control - naturally a conversation about pregnancy hadn’t happened with her partner as they weren’t planning on staying together, she was heading to college to make a career for her future. I can totally understand the decision not to abort, even though her life wasn’t stable and she didn’t have things together at her age. Some people are late bloomers and it takes time to work out that college/uni is a good idea and worth it for you. Something that must be hard when your mum is the only person with a degree that she knows of and everyone else seems to have struggled with pay check to pay check living and the financial crash.
I’d love to read more books of a similar style, most autobiographies I’ve read have focused on the pain and suffering with no commentaries on the social systems and how it relates to their situation. Most detailing abuse from childhood and not starting in adulthood, so the writing style seemed much more reflective than venting.
I look forward to reading some of the review suggestions
Graphic: Car accident and Medical content
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Pregnancy
basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Classism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Medical content
kirsty_irwin's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Classism, Excrement, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Medical content, Blood, and Terminal illness