Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

A Menina da Montanha by Tara Westover

398 reviews

jahara's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

kaitlyncookies's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

While I generally liked this book, I found the content to be a bit repetitive, and the pacing to be quite slow. I think I was just not in the mood for a book that had so many domestic abuse scenes. To be fair I couldn't help but compare it to the memoir "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls, so this story sounded very familiar to me. Nevertheless, it was well-written, and quite shocking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

rkap's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

alpettit's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Wow, what an incredible human story. It’s a story about finding your own strength, of perseverance, of survival. It’s about self discovery and renewal. I couldn’t put it down. The retelling was vivid and dramatic. I was committed to every phase of the Tara’s development. I’m glad she found her peace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

kinleydoes's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Genocide, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and War

lovetlr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Interesting & heartbreaking account. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, and Antisemitism

catcherinthepi's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

What a memoir. This is an incredibly detailed and often grotesque account of a life under the thumb of religious extremism in an extraordinarily abusive household. I was shocked at how casually violence happened in this house...and how so much was brushed under the rug of "God's plan" or "God will strengthen us through this". Chilling stuff. 

Westover being a historian makes a lot of sense, with the way she tells her story and how her life taught her the importance of how we tell stories to ourselves to make sense of the world. People will be studying this one for a long time, I hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

katharina90's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

4.0

A harrowing memoir about a woman who broke away from an incredibly abusive family to pursue an education.

Difficult to read due to the graphic abuse, neglect and layers of trauma. I'm sure I didn't even capture all of the CWs.

I mostly found it sad and not particularly hopeful which I think just reflects where the author was in her healing journey at the time of writing. 

By the end of the book, the author has managed to separate herself from most of her family and is setting boundaries (which is a huge accomplishment!), but it doesn't seem like she's at peace as she keeps trying to pursue a relationship with her mother who both enabled and participated in the abuse and neglect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Antisemitism, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, and Colonisation

miggyfool's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

kalebd_2125's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

A very well-crafted memoir and very good audio perfomance, although my one point of criticism is that the "survivalist" angle was oversold. She did community theatre and dance lessons, that's not hardcore survivalist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

contains graphic descriptions of severe burns and other traumatic injuries. Descriptions of abuse between siblings.