Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

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

16 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

jilllightner's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Misogyny, Ableism, and Gaslighting

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

mdwsn27's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

I really wish there was an updated; post- pandemic, gender-neutral bathroom, Trump era, promotion of trans rights... version that incorporated greater recognition of intersectionality. I loved the contents of this book, but feel like there could be a broader focus on any data bias in the context of non, cishet white-male identit(ies). At points it felt a lot like a pure lit-review, but was informative nonetheless. A great and important read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Pedophilia, Deportation, Death, Suicide attempt, Racism, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Drug use, Classism, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Child death, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Gaslighting, Abortion, War, Terminal illness, Violence, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, and Forced institutionalization

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

megmahoney1's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Infertility, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

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

juliatindell's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I thought this book was engaging, validating, and at times painful but incredibly important. Overall I would recommend it highly, frankly especially to cis white men who don’t understand the very real risks women face every day as a direct result of historic and ongoing patriarchal norms. That said, I wish the author had spent more time on the racial/ethnic and cultural data gaps resulting from imperialist, colonialist, white supremacist culture, and digging into the gap in intersectional analyses. I would also have liked to see more acknowledgment of the queer and trans data gaps. I can understand why the cisgender binary was the focus, and I really appreciated the book for what it was, but it would have been nice to include an introductory piece explaining why she chose not to go deeper into these areas, and possibly a call for additional research on racial/ethnic, cultural, and queer & trans data gaps at the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Gaslighting

This content is not described in great detail, but some references may be triggering. Especially when she addresses violence, as part of the last several chapters on responses to disasters.

catherinedsharp's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

Very interesting text that brought up lots of point with stats to back them up.
 
I had 2 main gripes. Firstly it was very binary. I would have liked to see some LGBTQIA*+ representation if possible although I get that it may not fit into the premise of the book. Secondly, it felt, tonally, quite man hating which I found quite difficult.

Overall very informative but not sure if I would read again because of the tone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Classism, Death, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment