Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

36 reviews

oranges448's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

korl's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.0

This book definitely changed the way I view the world, but it does have problems. Choosing to view the world as binary completely erases intersex, trans, and nongendered experiences which are even MORE invisible than the book describes. It also needlessly excludes men from many issues raised which would strengthen a lot of her claims (as frustrating as that is). 

I was quite surprised to realize this was written in 2019. It felt behind on many social issues and failed to include the full context behind the little solutions offered. Each chapter was just a reiteration of the previous, which does drive home the frustration factor of losing this data, but left me feeling annoyed and wishing to "get to a point"

I would still recommend this book, especially since it made me confront a lot of unconscious bias I had in myself; however, lots of discussion and further resources would be almost required

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Medical content, 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

gracie_reads_everything's review

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Literally everyone should just read this book.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Medical trauma, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Medical content

She talks about so many important topics but trigger warnings since these can be hard to hear about.

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

billie_churchill's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical trauma

Minor: Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abortion, Gaslighting, Infertility, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Genocide, Ableism, and Sexual harassment

stindex's review against another edition

challenging dark informative

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexism, and Sexual violence

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, War, Murder, Miscarriage, Violence, Misogyny, Abortion, Genocide, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Death, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual violence

plantgal_jill's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: War, Medical content, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault