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4.0


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slow-paced

3.75


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librijess's review against another edition

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emotional informative

5.0


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thebechdelbitch's review against another edition

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dark informative medium-paced

5.0

Wow. This book was so much to take in, and I'm so impressed by how readable it also was. Such a broad scope of history and yet still retains a really personal touch throughout. It filled me with quiet rage, and incredulity at how recent some of our meagre progress has been - it put everything into easy-to-understand context and historical framing with so many examples and a strong narrative voice. 

The final chapters made me cry and also want to vomit. 

Approach with caution - triggers abound. 

An excellent, enraging read. 

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informative medium-paced

2.75

The arguments at the centre of this book are so, so important, which only makes it more frustrating that the quality of the historical research in here was... not great. The factual and historiographical problems other reviewers pointed out are largely inconsequential and have no bearing on the main point of the work, but their presence could undermine the rest of the book, which is a shame. I really valued the commitment made to calling out medical racism as well as misogyny, and was pleased that there were no TERFy overtones in the writing. I wouldn't recommend this as a history of women's health, but the ideas at the root of the book are sound.

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challenging dark inspiring reflective slow-paced

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justmehayleyb's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0


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mengzhenreads's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.0

Super interesting, a frustrating but important read. 

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emotional informative sad

3.75

This book was incredibly hard to read. Reading about how people like you have been violated and dismissed never gets easier. It is interesting though if you are in the right headspace 

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adventurous dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Really good book, a little bit of a tough read.  Focused mainly on the field of gynaecology.

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