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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
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bookshelves: 2020, audio-books, borrowed-library, non-fiction

I'm not going to give this a rating because I'm struggling to decide how I feel about it. On the one hand it's clearly a meticulously researched and well-argued book. On the other hand it demonstrates a confounding lack of intersectionality or even, apparently, awareness of it.

There are some chapters which barely touch on matters of race, some on poverty, and (as far as I can remember) a solitary mention of additional difficulties faced by non-heterosexual women. Other than a brief discussion of different presentations of mental illnesses, autism, Asperger's and ADHD there was little to no mention of disability or the experiences of the non-neurotypical.

Most glaring of all was the complete omission, which surely can't have been accidental, of any discussion of the experiences of people whose gender doesn't align with their assigned gender at birth. In a book about gaps in data, that is inexcusable.
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January 10, 2020 – Shelved
February 19, 2020 – Started Reading
February 21, 2020 – Finished Reading

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