Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

147 reviews

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

nel0nen's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and War

kaitlyncookies's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

I rate non-fiction books 5 stars when they've made an impact on me and changed the way I fundamentally think about something. Invisible Women fits the bill. This book elicited so many emotions in me, but the main one was anger. Reading this book is like realizing you were living in the matrix. In the short time since I've read it I've already become less accepting of the male "defaults" around me. Being a woman is dangerous on so many levels and you don't even realize them until you are confronted by them in this book. I hope more people read this book (and for a piece of non-fiction that is essentially about a data gap it was incredibly readable!), but mostly I hope more men read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

caitlin_sf's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Medical content

mmcloe's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

3.25

It was OK! The facts Criado Perez presented were insightful and often illuminating - I think her early chapters on urban design and her later chapters on nation-building were among the most impactful for me.

That being said, this book leaves a ton of gaps in its pursuit to close gaps. I was shocked to find that queer people of any stripe were completely absent. One offhand mention of lesbians and no mention of trans people whatsoever. Some of the most impactful strides made in women's rights on a practical and theoretical level have been made by queer women, so it was incredibly disappointed to see them missing. Similarly, many of the chapters seemed to presume a white, "Western," middle class woman as the default. Later chapters started doing well to address women's challenges globally but the early narrow focus led to some overly repetitive chapters and talking points. The author also didn't really engage with capitalism or imperialism as structural forces; their symptoms were often mentioned but not the diseases themselves, which have brutally imposed the gendered regimes we know today. She's the daughter of a very powerful CEO, so I guess that makes sense.

Also, the citational practices in this book were absolutely unhinged. The endnotes are almost entirely URLs that I have no way of knowing whether or not the links are dead. I would've appreciated more rigorous citations, a lack of which is another major cause of gender data gaps. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

maddramaqueen's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

A bit gender essentialist and white feminist for me, but the actual information is interesting and inarguably worth knowing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cancer, Genocide, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, and Forced institutionalization

natalie_ann's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read. I love books that really challenge me to think and change the way I see the world, and this book did both beautifully. I love how much this book tells a story but also pulls data from around the world. Caroline Criado Perez has my utmost respect.

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Content Warnings

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

alex_lk's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

Well this was positively enraging. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

tehstorm's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

shuuuuu's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

4.0

As a woman, this book affirms every suspicion and bad feeling you have about sexism and how we are failing women in all aspects and provides you the data and research to back it up. This is definitely frustrating to read but I think much needed to continue to shed light on the issues that are still very prevalent today. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence