ClareR (5996 KP) rated A Curious History of Sex in Books
Feb 25, 2020
1. It’s really well researched. The writer, Dr. Kate Lister, really knows her subject, and it shows, because
2. you have to know your subject to make something that could be really serious into something rather funny and thoroughly entertaining.
3. I’ve learnt a lot from this book, some things I’m not so sure that I would have ever found out about without reading this, and some that I never knew I NEEDED to know about!
4. The added photos are fascinating: there’s art, photos (ranging from the informative to the titillating, via some things that are frankly terrifying - some of the doctors equipment, for example!!).
5. You’ll want to tell all of your friends and selected family really inappropriate, yet interesting facts. Or maybe that’s just me...
6. Whores of Yore on Twitter will be your next stop, either whilst you’re reading the book, or as soon as you’ve turned the last page (or when you’ve finished reading my review! Go on - do it!). It’s great!
So, you’ll be wanting to go out and buy or borrow your copy now - am I right? Because it really is a fascinating read, and I suggest you do buy it as soon as possible!
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this book - it was the most entertaining, eye-opening 10 days I’ve had in a while!
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game
Book
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse...
Frasier: A Cultural History
Book
After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in Boston, he returned to Seattle and...
RWBY
7.6
Rate It
TV Show
Team RWBY (Ruby, Weiss, Belladonna and Yang) trains at Beacon Academy, to fight crime and monsters...
Rooster Teeth RWBY Grimm
Taboo - Season 2
8.0
Rate It
TV Season
BBC One and FX has announced that they will team up with producers Ridley Scott’s Scott Free...
Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin
Book
When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the...
The Edinburgh Fringe in a Nutshell: A Performer's Guide to Staying Solvent and Sane at the World's Biggest Arts Festival
Book
Whether you are a solo artist or the producer of a full cast ensemble taking a show to the Edinburgh...
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume eight
Book
A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on...
After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Theory
Andrew Parker, Janet E. Halley, Richard Rambuss and Lauren Berlant
Book
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken...
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark was adapted for younger readers by Kate Moore from her bestselling novel The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.
It tells the story of the wonder drug of the early 1900s, radium. It was thought to cure illnesses, and its luminescent properties made it ideal for glow-in-the-dark watches and for dials and instruments of pilots during WWI. To paint these devices, women would lick the brushes, dip them into the radium, paint, then repeat. The women did not know they were becoming sick with radium poisoning. Some did not show symptoms until years after they stopped working with the radium.
If you read the original version, you know it is detailed and includes timelines of multiple people. The version for a younger audience is written with age-appropriate content, but it is still incredibly detailed and more than 400 pages. The story shows these women as individuals, showing their separate lives, but also the strong, tight-knit group who fought for themselves and to ensure workplace safety for all.
This book is perfect for assigned reading for history or science classes.
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 9/1/20.