Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

4 reviews

screechie's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Information that should definitely be more common knowledge. There are some places in science where advancements & atrocities are woven together so tightly it’s hard to find the demarcation between them. There are also some where it is very, very clear that the knowledge gained wasn’t sought for out of curiosity with compassion, rather for personal advancement using every sadistic method available. Horror&gratitude nauseatingly intertwined after reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bardic_llama's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

3.5

With the title, it seemed as it was going to be encompassing multiple eras of history and groups so it was somewhat disappointing to discover it was only about the era surrounding antebellum south. Cause it seems like that should’ve been a good chunk of the book but not all of it. Like I was expecting the book to go over how being transgender has affected gynecology as well. Even then the book was still more about covering the procedures instead of the individual people & groups.

That said it was still a good read, I just think this is one of those where I’d be more interested in reading the person’s research for the book instead. And I’m still happy (happy’s not the right word) to have read this as I was able to learn a vast majority of medical advances in gynecology were at the expense/torment of slaves. Which while I want to say is surprising, at least to me, it isn’t as America was built on the back of racist institutions/disparities that still haven’t been fixed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

sonik_junk's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Colonisation