Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

4 reviews

tmickey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Child death, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcoholism

Minor: Slavery, Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Homophobia, Incest, and Forced institutionalization

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: War, Classism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Incest, Child death, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Homophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Ableism, and Sexual content

henrygravesprince's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Engaging & at times a very thrilling read. Very, very well-written and easy to read despite the length. I did take an extended break from reading shortly after I started this book & was unable to get back to it for over a year, but that was on account of my personal life, not the merits of the book. As an aside, a majority of the content warnings I’ve tagged for this are things discussed, not necessarily perpetuated, in the work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, War, Abandonment, Child abuse, Incest, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Rape

It is worth noting there’s also a moderate amount of discussion of capital punishment (particularly during the French Revolution), as well as minor discussion of graverobbing and corpse exhumation. That aside, the content warnings I’ve listed are moreso attributed to the events (& occasionally, people) the book covers than anything seeming to be endorsed by the author. There may be some things I missed, since I took a long break from reading in the middle, but I tried to mark down everything as best I could, based on how much they reoccur and how prominent they are within the biographies.

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It took me nearly two months to finish Romantic Outlaws, but I am so glad I persevered. The amount of research that Charlotte Gordon did is staggering (over fifty pages of notes!) - and it shows on every single page of this dual biography.

More to come later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Murder, Fatphobia, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness

One mention of the g**** (anti-Ziganist) slur.