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

138 reviews

hannibanani29's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Genocide, Transphobia, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

samdalefox's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Informative, infuriating, and intense. The book is facts and data gaps one after another boom boom boom. I listened to this via audio book and had to have more breaks than I usually would for a non fiction intersectional feminism book. Partly because of the barrage of statistics (I needed time to process them in my brain), but also the barrage of sadness. Sadness that half the population are treated so poorly, as an after-thought, if they're ever thought of at all. I think I may have given this 5 stars, however due to the audiobook format I couldn't access the (presumed?) bibliography to check out the references. I would ahve preferred to buy this as a physical copy to refer to, but it was on sale for £1.99 for International Women's Day so I couldn't resist.

I believe this is necessary reading for all people. Because believe it or not, the lives of women affect all people. This is an antidote to wilful ignornance. As repeatedly demonstrated throughout the book, women overwhelmingly take care of 'social reproduction' which is socialist terminology for people making (child bearing, raising, socialising, caring for). This financially unrecognised work is literally what makes the capitalist world go round.

The book does a good job at building upon ideas and concepts (such as 'man as default'), explaining what data gaps are, how they impact society, how they are limiting, harmful, or misunderstood, and how the data gaps can and should be used and rectified. There are numerous examples from intersectional communities across the globe, with what I believe to be appropriate interrogation of the available data. What I particularly appreciated was the author's attempts to highlight the benefits that can be gained from resolving these data gaps. Although equality/equity in itself is a moral good, the myriad economic, societal, and envorionmental benefits are astounding. I learnt something in each section, I'd recommend reading sequentially through it to fully benefit.

Chapters of the book:

1. Intro: the default make 
2. Daily life
3. The workplace
4. Design
5. Going to the Doctor
6. Public life
7. When it goes wrong 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

spellygirl's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book. Though if you have any empathy at all, it's going to break your heart and piss you off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War

kaleidoscope_heart's review against another edition

2.5

I found this book interesting and informative in the ways that the world sees women especially in relation to data but have been left disappointed by the complete lack of any meantion that people outside of the man/woman binary exist. Like it wouldn't of been to hard to put in.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

layla262's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.25

Amazingly researched, but let down by the lack of intersectionality. The main focus was on American and British cishet women. Other than that Criado Perez exposes the gender data gap and makes compelling arguments around increasing female representation to make a more accessible world for all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

heathermesley's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

sydapel's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.75

Truly proud of myself for taking the time to really dig into this book, as I'm walking with this incredible depth of knowledge about all of the pervasive and unrecognized ways the female population is discriminated against at every level of our lives. And how so much of it is the result of failing to ask women any questions. From prescription drugs to low income housing to disaster relief, this book is an absolute must read. I particularly appreciated how the author made space to talk about countries other than the US and UK, making this a global perspective on discrimination and gender gaps rather than a white European one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

diana_raquel's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

Invisible Women is a book that shows us how the world is largely built by and for men, systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender bias at the root of the discrimination that affects women's lives on a daily basis. And that really seemed like something that I would like. And I did. Even with some problems, I was going to rate it 4-stars.

So, what happened? Caroline Criado Pérez happened.

The only criticism that I had for this book is that it had a cis-view of the world and that it could have a bigger focus on intersectionality. And I didn't make much of it because it could be unintentional. I was ready to give the benefit of the doubt. But then, in my research of the author, I found out that Criado Pérez is actually a TERF (Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist). And this isn't a case of "oh she wrote some tweets that you didn't like and now you are calling her a TERF". No, this is an actual feminist association calling her out and a blog post that Criado Pérez wrote herself in her blog about not liking to be called ‘cis’ because she’s "a woman" (which is a very classic TERF talk). And, there's seems that she also wrote other blog posts with TERF arguments that were deleted. So, the cis-view of the word that I noted in the book, is actually intentional. And, apparently, she also reacted poorly to women of color calling her out for the whiteness in her feminism, and then I realized that maybe she didn't focus more on intersectionality because that's the problem with white feminism.

So, no, I won't be rating or recommending this book. You can say "well, what about the separation of the author from the book?". And I will say that this is nonfiction, everything that is said in this book is the beliefs of the author. And so there can't be a separation. Therefore, I'm not rating this book and I'm not gonna recommend it. And it's not on my shelf labeled "feminism" because feminism is about uplifting people and not picking on already vulnerable minorities and using your platform to harm people and spread misinformation.

I'm a feminist but I do not like or support TERFs. I stopped supporting Rowling and Adichie for this kind of behavior and I'm not gonna support Criado Pérez either. In my opinion, if you believe in TERFs arguments and say that you're a feminist then, to me, you're just trying to cover up a hate movement using feminist language. A feminist believes in upholding people. If you gonna be a bully and use your platform to spread misinformation and harm an already vulnerable group, then you're not a feminist, you're a bully.

So no, I'm not gonna support Criado Pérez. And I only wished that I would find out about her behavior before I read this book. I recognized that she makes good points about several issues, but as a feminist, I like to uphold people, not bully and harm them. Therefore, as I said, I do not recommend this book. You can still read it (after all, who am I to gatekeeping people from books?), but I do not recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

leif's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Stalking, and War

narbine's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Classism

Minor: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, and Lesbophobia