Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Happening by Annie Ernaux

14 reviews

lovegriefandgender's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

samarakroeger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

haunting, graphic, and so important. I don’t care what people say, I think this was an incredibly brave thing for Ernaux to publish at the height of her literary career and gives voice to many with similar experiences.

Really great knowing that my country has decided that abortions are no longer okay 🙃.  just such a comforting feeling, isn’t it??? I hope pro-life people understand that outlawing abortion doesn’t make it less common, it just makes it incredibly dangerous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Classism

n_li_re's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Medical trauma

linluvsbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Somewhat graphic but necessary recounting of an illegal abortion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Abortion

Moderate: Sexism

ledablanca's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, Medical trauma, and Abortion

querciola's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, and Classism

geraldinerowe's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

Part memoir, part social commentary, covering both the misogyny and classism of 1960s France, this is an incredibly powerful book about the author's experience of abortion in her early twenties. Ernaux repeatedly plunges you into her novelistic style of storytelling, only to pull you out again to remind you that she's writing this from memory four decades later. Seeing her experiences from both the perspective of her young self as it happened, and also with hindsight telling us what stayed with her and affected her later life, makes the book all the more compelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

adamparrishlover's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Abortion

Moderate: Sexism

delle_frenchtxt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, Vomit, and Abortion

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Classism