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

61 reviews

ruthmoog's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

4.5

Brilliant book that clearly explains the impact of excluding women's experience. It doesn't ignore the experience of non-white women either, but does acknowledge that although women and female data are missing, so too are data for non-white women plus pregnant and menstruateing women to a greater extent. Trans women however are not referenced at all.

It's very statistic heavy, and relentless, but a must read imo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Classism, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Alcohol, Car accident, Dementia, Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Rape, War, Abortion, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Cancer

abbs17's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Violence and War

zombiezami's review

Although I was excited for this book and getting lots of interesting and surprising facts from it, some of the turns of phrase struck me as outdated at best and cis-centric/transphobic at worst. Some of these include "female-bodied," saying she considers women to be those with XX chromosomes (fun fact: almost no one checks their chromosomes because it's expensive to do so, so the XX/XY dichotomy is a generalization, even before you get into intersex people existing), and quoting someone who says that "pregnancy is not a gender-neutral event." These statements, plus hearing that the author was British, gave me pause. 

I searched the author online and found that she had said some transphobic dogwhistles that she erased rather than apologizing for. Aside from this, her solutions to various issues such as sexual violence seem focused on carcerality. Even if the author had said, "I'm focusing on cis women because that's what data I have," that would have been a bit more excusable, but I don't feel good about continuing to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Murder

Moderate: Excrement, Domestic abuse, and Transphobia

Minor: War

Menstruation

readingelli's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, War, Pregnancy, Hate crime, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

xosirenox's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Abortion, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual harassment, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

saraaai's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, and Domestic abuse

gabbyreynolds's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

hannibanani29's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

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

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

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

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

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