Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow

8 reviews

disguisedposer's review

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

mouche's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

flufficorn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

A lot happened in the 90s. Like a lot. I think a lot of folks have forgotten all that happened back then. And so much of it was a fertile (pun intended?) battleground for feminism and the idea of femininity. The book goes into depth about the many, highly publicized, pop culture moments that our political and social system had no issue politicizing and weaponizing against women and girls. 

I was fully embarrassed about all of the opinions I was taught to have about femininity and my own gender. This book invited me to question that upbringing. And while I am currently working on deprogramming these things from my brain, it was so interesting to have cultural insight into what seeded those ideas in the people that raised me, in the society I was in as a growing adolescent, and what I carried with me into my young adulthood that only ended up confusing and confounding me. I ended the book feeling like I had run through the gamut of emotions and just been through one hell of a therapy session. 

This book really shook me in the best possible way. I was but a child and pre-teen in the 90s. Even if I do remember a lot of the big moments of the 90s, they sort of played in the background because I was so young that I did not understand the implications of them until I was an adult. What I found most interesting about this book is that all these moments that I thought had skated by me; all these social attitudes I thought were beyond my young ken at the time; these were all things that even now as an adult I have internalized. All of them having to do with femininity, sex,  and sexuality. And that all means I am going to end up paying for multiple houses for my therapist.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Gaslighting

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

carlaah1984's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

As a girl in the 90's I found this an interesting read that I could remember a lot of points of and get new insights on, and some confirmation of feelings and trends that  I experienced. 

over the last few years, I have undertaken learning about things that happened during my lifetime but I was too young to understand some of this was repeated information, but worthing support of her thesis. The section about Monica Lewinsky and Marica Clark was a bit long for me, I'm not sure if it's because I listen to the slow-burn podcast about it, but hearing of the sexism and judgment from female reporters was an important piece Yarrow added. 

I think the section on Courtney Love was perhaps the most interesting to me,  I know here more of the later Hole and Larry Flint era so learning about before that was interesting. The music section with Paula Cole, Meredith Brooks, and Alanis Morissette was something I remembered, and connected with that section was compelling. 

The book set up the sexualized nation of being a girl in the late 1990s and setting up the raunch of the early 2000s and I would have kept listening to her talk about that. It really helped me understand why and how being a girl/woman is such an odd concept for me and I struggle to fully understand or embrace it. 

 I loved Susan Douglas's "Where the girls are", and this book feels like it picks up that material where the book ends in the early 1990's this one marches forward with what it was like to be a female (especially a white female) from that point forward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape and Abortion

allidone's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Transphobia, and Trafficking

sarahkate22's review

challenging informative reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia

readalongwithnat's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I've never read (well, listened to) anything like this before. Definitely recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault