Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

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

20 reviews

stripy_gloves's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abortion

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

bilbili's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

korl's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.0

This book definitely changed the way I view the world, but it does have problems. Choosing to view the world as binary completely erases intersex, trans, and nongendered experiences which are even MORE invisible than the book describes. It also needlessly excludes men from many issues raised which would strengthen a lot of her claims (as frustrating as that is). 

I was quite surprised to realize this was written in 2019. It felt behind on many social issues and failed to include the full context behind the little solutions offered. Each chapter was just a reiteration of the previous, which does drive home the frustration factor of losing this data, but left me feeling annoyed and wishing to "get to a point"

I would still recommend this book, especially since it made me confront a lot of unconscious bias I had in myself; however, lots of discussion and further resources would be almost required

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

idesofmarch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Murder, and War

unluckycat13's review against another edition

The author is a TERF, this is a TERF book. Not to undermine the honestly good work and important information in this book, but you can't remove it from the author's views. While it starts out seeming reasonable enough-- I think it's understandable even if not great to not separate sex and gender-- the author eventually begins to build her argument into women being an immutable biologically separate organism with most things in life attributed purely to biology. Of course there's no proof of this because of the data gap. The studies will surely show she's right though, as they always say. 

The book does start out acknowledging queer and disabled people, and it does talk about other countries with a non dismissive and non bigoted attitude, however the author is very quick to paint groups of people (such as western women, or British women) with a singular brush. Despite admitting that the so called standard male doesn't represent men in general, she's very argumentative in favor of a standard female model. It's hard to untangle her personal views on sex and gender from the rest of the book and the more you begin to think about it, the worse it gets. 

I would generally not recommend this book, and while it is a nice organization of some studies I have heard most of them before elsewhere. 

Being a book about sexism, you can expect a TW warning for basically literally every topic, albeit only passingly. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

haleybre's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War

sydneyhenshaw's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed this book and I learned a lot from it. It really helped me realize that some issues that seem frivolous can actually really add up or be more dangerous than they seem. I appreciated it covering the realities for women all over the world and telling a diverse bunch of  stories. I wish it would have spent a bit more time touching on intersectionality and how largely that impacts data gaps also. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

megmahoney1's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic