Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb

2 reviews

annniina98's review against another edition

4.5

May be clear to everyone, but to check content warnings. This book is definitely not for everyone. But if you can read about these topics, I'd highly recommend this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Self harm, Rape, Infertility, Hate crime, Gun violence, Gore, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Grief, War, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Mental illness, Abandonment, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Violence, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abortion and Cannibalism

beckyp91's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

3.75

The stories in this book are enormously important and I'm in awe of the strength of the survivors telling their stories, and of the tenacity of the author in listening and recounting their experiences. For that reason this book is enormously important and well worth reading. However I felt that it was let down by the structure of the book and how rushed it felt in places, with little overarching coherence and what felt like random segues in to different timeframes, and some areas where the editing could have caught repetition of facts and phrases within a few pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, War, Violence, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Blood, and Abortion