Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

53 reviews

pikkugrepu's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

Great to see so many statistics and the thorough way of sharing all that data. I did like the book a lot, I just wish it was more intersectional. Where is race, disability and sexuality? Fat-, indigenous- and transwomen?
I get that the book was written with one topic (ciswomen) in mind and I guess there was just not enough space for more diverse point of views? But to be honest just like this book tells us women have been ignored and silenced for so long in a way that causes a lot of misinformation and suffering (which is true), in the exact same way it is ignoring all the intersectionality. 

It’s a good start though, and I can’t wait to gift it to people who claim feminism isn’t needed anymore.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Rape, and Death

bilbili's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Death of parent, War, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

amyshepshep's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, and Violence

zemily83's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

idesofmarch's review

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Misogyny

Moderate: War, Violence, Medical content, Genocide, Trafficking, Police brutality, Hate crime, Slavery, Domestic abuse, and Murder

joensign's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Violence, Rape, and Sexual harassment

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

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

sydneyhenshaw's review

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: Racism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Murder, Car accident, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

jlferrazzo27's review

Too much discussion of violence against women for my little brain at this time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Sexual harassment