Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

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

22 reviews

lola1212's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

unluckycat13's review

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: Transphobia, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Stalking, Miscarriage, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Violence, Trafficking, Racism, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, and Medical trauma

mmaurer's review against another edition

This book is about how data often fails to account for (cis) women; however, it takes a binary understanding of sex and gender and does not consider how data also fails to account for trans or nonbinary experiences. I’m disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

Found out the author is a TERF. Also, couldn’t take seriously the way the narrator was pronouncing urinal (she kept saying ur-EYE-nahl 🙃)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual assault

rosalyn_sailoge's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

This book was highly informative and has highlighted a lot of issues I had previously not considered. 
I sometimes found it difficult to follow which country some statistics came from. 
There is no discussion or mention of trans-women at all throughout the book which I find a bit problematic and contradicts the idea of this book being about 'invisible women'. 
I would still recommend as it contains a lot of important information. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia

rhi_'s review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Gaslighting, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Racism and Transphobia

bellebelly's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

strahlex's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

emilybarbian's review

informative fast-paced

1.0

This book SHOULD be 5 stars.  This book is important, engaging, and enlightening.  The author is thorough and clear, and she makes sure to explain how class, race, and culture intersect with patriarchal norms to create dangerous and deadly gaps in data and understanding for women.  

However, she purposely and repeatedly excludes trans and non-binary people.  This book is all about how dangerous it is to  exclude groups of people from data-gathering and decision-making spheres, and the fact that she intentionally does the same thing to trans people is baffling.  

Even more frustrating is that all of her arguments in the book apply to the trans community!  It would have taken zero extra effort to be inclusive, but instead she chose not to.  This is actively harmful, and it undermines her entire book.  I can’t in good conscience recommend this to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

soeph's review against another edition

challenging informative

 Schwierig... Einerseits trägt sie wirklich alle möglichen Studien zusammen, es ist wirklich super wichtig zu wissen, was für reale Konsequenzen struktureller Sexismus hat. Vor allem für cis Dudes, ist das glaube ich sehr überzeugend. Gibt auch gut Puls, wenn man das liest. Andererseits kann man nicht ein Buch über Geschlechterdiskriminierung schreiben und trans und nicht-binäre Menschen mit KEINEM Wort erwähnen. Das kann nur mit Absicht passieren. Ja, in vielen Studien kommen sie nicht vor, aber es wäre an vielen Stellen möglich gewesen, sie miteinzubeziehen (Gefahr an Bushaltestellen, Übergriffe im öffentlichen Raum, Toiletten, Medizin, usw usw). Abgesehen davon, dass einfach super viel fehlt dadurch, ist es sehr ironisch, ein Buch über eine große Lücke in der Wissenschaft zu schreiben, und dann selbst so eine große Lücke zu lassen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia