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

22 reviews

callysutherland's review

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

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

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

lucyrudd's review

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

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

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

jeninchi's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicide, War, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Violence, Sexism, and Gun violence

ampam's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Eye-opening, and disheartening.

While I have known the world was designed for men (the phone I'm typing on right now is too big for my small, but not unusually sized hands, to be used one-handed easily), seeing the extent of it in everything from air bags to policy was very revealing. The book illustrated in many facets the repercussions of not taking women into account, and none are positive. It is quite daunting how much needs to be changed, and the book unfortunately does not offer any solutions for the world to be made more equitable from the flaws it pointed out in its writing. Additionally, the book does not delve into detail other intersectional identities like race, or at all for more prejudiced-against groups like LGBTQIA* folks. Regardless, it is a recommended read to understand how pervasive the idea of only designing for men and refusing to consider women is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

Super informative and important. It likely didn't help my rating that I read much of this in one sitting as I often struggle with non-fiction and felt that powering through was my best option. Very heavy on the stats and figures but it highlights so many interesting and important facts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

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

Minor: Miscarriage