Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

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

37 reviews

lolasbooks12's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gracie_reads_everything's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Literally everyone should just read this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

She talks about so many important topics but trigger warnings since these can be hard to hear about.

callysutherland's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Mandatory reading. In small chunks, so you don't get tooooo angry.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Ableism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

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

cvbazley's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

This read like a PhD thesis - regurgitating too much data without making enough insightful connections between that data. The book was far too long for the point she made. I felt like her approach was often just “women are victimized by men” and… that’s not a helpful approach to this topic. The data quickly lost its meaning and became a sea of numbers. I did learn from this book and came away with new perspectives on my own experience - but I was mostly annoyed with the author’s quips and shallow conclusions and therefore struggled to finish this book. Oh, and I am a woman, so don’t hate.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

mdwsn27's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

I really wish there was an updated; post- pandemic, gender-neutral bathroom, Trump era, promotion of trans rights... version that incorporated greater recognition of intersectionality. I loved the contents of this book, but feel like there could be a broader focus on any data bias in the context of non, cishet white-male identit(ies). At points it felt a lot like a pure lit-review, but was informative nonetheless. A great and important read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

plantgal_jill's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical content, Car accident, Gaslighting, War, 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

lalivilou's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic