Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Unsichtbare Frauen: Wie eine von Männern gemachte Welt die Hälfte der Bevölkerung ignoriert by Caroline Criado Pérez

36 reviews

tayaingrid's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, and Classism

lonelyhyperion's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

3.0

Very informative and an easy read despite being so statistic-heavy. Interspersed with a good amount of humour to lighten the depressing nature of the topic. I think in some places it lost me because the "fixing the data gap" solution rang a bit hollow when you comprehend the vastness of the problem. And as other reviews point out, there was a lack of discussion of trans identities... 

PS -- interesting to read this in the run up to the 2024 American election, as Kamala Harris makes a quick appearance in the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

princess_lea's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective

5.0

This is a very important read for literally everyone. It’s extremely informative and incredibly frustrating to read as a woman. Especially since this book was written in 2018, and based on the events of the last years with covid, and everything else happening, nothing really seems to have changed. It’s not a whole lot of time that has passed but it’s important for things to change, and fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and War

maddramaqueen's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

A bit gender essentialist and white feminist for me, but the actual information is interesting and inarguably worth knowing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cancer, Genocide, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, and Forced institutionalization

marymwest's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

I’d highly recommend audiobook for this. I think it would have been harder to enjoy as text because it is a bit dense, very statistic heavy, and quite frankly overwhelming. That being said, this was important & eye opening! Some things I knew, many things I learned. This world was not designed for us!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

zemily83's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

jilllightner's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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: Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

gracie_reads_everything's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Literally everyone should just read this book.

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Content Warnings

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

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

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