Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

83 reviews

astudyinfic's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

catorureads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Some parts were a bit slower due to the many stats but very interesting, eye-opening and a mustread.


For my fellow Kindle people: the actual book ends at around 65%, all the rest is the bibliography and index of all the research that is mentioned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Miscarriage, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Police brutality

michelleann815's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Awesome data-driven book backed by solid evidence, it is a must-read for anyone, from fans of statistics to ardent feminists and everyone in between

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

trapdorr's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Powerful. Reminds us that despite how far we have come in the last 50 years, there’s still so much farther to go on the road to equality. The overturn of Roe hadn’t even happened yet when this was published. I would love to hear the authors take on the control being exercised over women’s body’s now. “Gender neutral does not mean gender equal.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and War

tayaingrid's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, and Classism

veeglessner's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

 Okay! First off, what an amazing effort to compile and organize the research in this book. It will make you so, so angry reading Perez' thesis: the male perspective is the default human perspective and that fact has been doing women a disservice for centuries. There are many topics in this book that I hadn't thought to consider in a feminist lens. This book could be the strongest case for why the work still s not done, and an amazing rebuke to people who believe women have equality with men since the 21st century. We are literally sacrificing quality of life, being abused and even dying due to the system that this book analyzes.

Now: Despite managing to include race and to an extent class, this book does not in any way analyze the gender binary or the experiences of trans and NB people. As another reviewer pointed out, the words "trans", "nonbinary" do not appear even once in this book. How do you write 500 pages about gender without including at least a mention of these identities? The premise of the WHOLE BOOK is that discrimination by exclusion IS discrimination.

Also, there are a couple (one in particular) VERY graphic descriptions of abuse that were not necessary.

So I have to recommend this incredible feat of a book with those huge caveats. You will learn so much and become enraged, while thinking that the author badly needed a sensitivity reader and an ironically more inclusive perspective. At 6 years old, I think this book could really use a re-release with some updated statistics and information as well as addressing those gaping "data gaps." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, and Misogyny

yoursisterscanary's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse

himpersonal's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

4.0

Lots of great points made, and I think it’s a book important for all genders, especially men, to read. There’s a one star review by someone named Carey who made some good critique of the book. So it’s also important to check sources and keep a balanced view. 

For my part, I was having to remind myself that there are lots of men in the world that I like and respect and who have had nothing to do with architecting any of these issues, even if some are guilty of perpetuating them unconsciously. Having grown up in a double patriarchy (Korean family in the US), I too am guilty of this and could’ve benefited from asking more questions.

This was highly relevant to me, for example, as a pianist. I had to give up at a certain point because my hand span was too small. Rather than asking why the pianos couldn’t be made smaller, I assumed the problem was me. Or every time I put on my seatbelt, I have to use an adjuster because the seats and belts are too big for my body. (I really think there’s a huge untapped market for car manufacturers of they’d design and sell cars just for women’s body!!!!, like in the billions!!!!). 

What’s frustrating about books like this - nothing gets done, even though we know better. 😢 Plus, women generally outlive men and in poorer health for all the reasons outlined and more. So we’re also having to live longer in these awful conditions. The unfairness never seems to end…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

princess_lea's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective

5.0

This is a very important read for literally everyone. It’s extremely informative and incredibly frustrating to read as a woman. Especially since this book was written in 2018, and based on the events of the last years with covid, and everything else happening, nothing really seems to have changed. It’s not a whole lot of time that has passed but it’s important for things to change, and fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and War

minkimonki's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Rape