Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Femmes invisibles by Caroline Criado Pérez

71 reviews

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

bilbili's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

khymihr's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse and Pandemic/Epidemic

lolasbooks12's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

idesofmarch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Murder, and War

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

haleybre's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War

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: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jlferrazzo27's review against another edition

Too much discussion of violence against women for my little brain at this time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual harassment

cvbazley's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

This read like a PhD thesis - regurgitating too much data without making enough insightful connections between that data. The book was far too long for the point she made. I felt like her approach was often just “women are victimized by men” and… that’s not a helpful approach to this topic. The data quickly lost its meaning and became a sea of numbers. I did learn from this book and came away with new perspectives on my own experience - but I was mostly annoyed with the author’s quips and shallow conclusions and therefore struggled to finish this book. Oh, and I am a woman, so don’t hate.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment