Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

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

17 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

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

katreads2022's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

A shocking, sad book. Really covers a breadth of issues facing women today. The breadth is so vast that sometimes coherency is sacrificed to cram in loosely related facts and figures. It is, however, wonderfully researched and an informative read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Hate crime, and Sexism

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

Minor: Trafficking and Medical trauma

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

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: Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Genocide, and Death

rhianonw's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, and Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia, Hate crime, Excrement, and Lesbophobia

eloiseisreading's review against another edition

informative inspiring slow-paced

3.0

A reasonably thorough review of studies into gender/sex discrimination and a discussion of the lack of gender/sex related data in a number of fields and areas of life. 
Although mentioned briefly from time to time, the author doesn’t go into much detail into the intersectionalities of oppression and discrimination (e.g. race, sexuality, disability, class, etc), which I think is a real shortcoming of the book. I also find the author’s definitions of sex and gender, and her constant switching between the two, a little uncomfortable. Additionally, considering trans women and non-binary AFAB people are amongst the most ‘invisible women’ in society, they didn’t get a mention at all. I think this is worth knowing before going into the book; although this is a feminist book, it isn’t explicitly inclusive of all women and minority gendered people. 
Additionally, I felt the author didn’t do enough to unpack and distrust the everyday sexist ideologies of gender stereotypes and heteronormativity. 
Overall, I think this is a decent beginner’s book exploring gender/sex discrimination and gendered data science. I think it’s a worthy read when combined with more diverse feminist literature. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence