Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

9 reviews

francescaastraea's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This is indeed a comic drama about motherhood. And Virginia Woolf, but no spoilers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

casthecryptid's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Mental illness

Moderate: Gaslighting and Infidelity

therainbowshelf's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

After years of this being on my TBR, my husband discovered it and really connected with it. Bechdel is even more analytical with this book than the one about her dad, bringing in psychology scholarship to examine her life and relationship with mom. In one panel her therapist suggests her childhood diary was a way to distance herself from what was going on, and I felt like that summarized her style with this book as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide and Car accident

Nudity, negative relationship with parent

mcsuggett's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This graphic novel was part memoir and part psychology course. This is a book I could definitely reread because I'm sure that there are details I didn't pick up on the first time, and there's plenty more to understand in the psychoanalysis parts. There's a lot of jargon that can be tricky to tread through. The story also jumps back and forth a lot, going from present to past to even farther past to therapy sessions about the present to quotes from psychoanalysts to quotes from Virginia Woolf. I would like to read this again after reading To The Lighthouse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual content

anniefwrites's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

An interesting deep dive into Bechdel’s relationship with her mother. I think it was a bit too cerebral for me, but I also felt like that was the point; Bechdel attempts to think her way through their relationship rather than feel her way through it, which I think I would have preferred. Still, I always love her art style and raw vulnerability. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Infidelity

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Vomit

maidenknightbradamant's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

I went “God I wish I could read Fun Home again but new” and Bechdel said “ok, I gotchu covered.” I still need to read the old DTWOF. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual content

snappingbats's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Dense with psychology/psychiatry references, with a refreshingly large and sometimes obtuse vocabulary compared to some of the stuff I've read recently. I enjoyed its down-to-earth everyday happenings, described in big words, and the intense analyzation of emotions, abuse & neglect, the processing of that, and the decision to move forward in hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Abortion, Animal death, and Car accident

jbellomy's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia and Misogyny

Minor: Grief

bradypus's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Infidelity