Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Janina Ramírez

2 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

informative inspiring slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Violence and War

nell71's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

3.0

Great book, pity about the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Murder

After an interesting read about medieval women's achievements, the book suddenly brings in gender politics and suggests perhaps the women didn't identify as women... Thus undoing the point of the book which presumably was to celebrate women's history.