Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Femmes invisibles by Caroline Criado Pérez

19 reviews

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: Ableism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

billie_churchill's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Medical trauma, and Classism

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

lucyrudd's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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: Misogyny and Sexism

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

jackie_marion's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Sexual assault, Violence, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

megmahoney1's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

sundaybookclub's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gjenn's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Genocide, Violence, Police brutality, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jessisangle's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic