PLEASE tell me you're all reading Invisible Women?!

Currently £1.99 on Kindle

Took me ages to read as I needed to process the information and calm down each time.

I'm now reading Irreversible Damage

I'm reading this but like others have said in small bits as I get so annoyed and really need to let the information be absorbed.

However she does use the word gender an awful lot which did confuse me at the beginning? Anyone else?

Also reading the Vagina Bible which is very interesting but she has a whole chapter on transgender and that they are just like us which was so disappointing especially from a medical doctor

I'm reading "Misogynies" by Joan Smith. Mostly with a kind of horrified look on my face.

I am awful for reading lots of books at once, so I have started Invisible Women too and have Helen Lewis's book mentioned above lined up on my kindle.

Also in the middle of reading the Strike series. 🙈

I've read it, it's a fabulous book. I left it in my classroom on my bookshelf and somebody has 'borrowed' it. I'm quite annoyed but also hopeful that somebody else is reading it and being inspired by it.

DH bought a copy for PIL for Christmas!

I bought it the day it was published - had been waiting eagerly for months. Have it on audible too. I need to reread it though. First reading is so rage inducing that you have to take it in chunks and you miss bits through the anger.

I'm fascinated by how different people pick up on different aspects. FIL is finding it hard going but interesting. But he's completely missed the driving/walking to work thing - which I think is in the prologue?! DH is completely obsessed by the music sections - female composers, female pianists etc and basically any parts that are to do with size - building work, safety equipment etc. The bits that had the most impact on me were around issues in developing countries/disaster areas (eg houses without kitchens or the "incorrectly used" ovens) and also the way children (girls) are treated. We all have our issues/interests.

Someone mentioned the Vagina Bible. I really need to read that before her next book, on menopause, comes out.

I mean, [grins] thank you as it is another I will check out

I am. But slowly, because it’s upsetting.

I'm reading "Difficult women a history of feminism in 11 fights" by Helen Lewis

I havent seen it in the shops surprisingly

I'm halfway through my second read of it - I purchased and read it when it was released... but it warrants another read so I am now reading each page much slower and taking notes.

Also reading Irreversible Damage (it finally showed up last week! I've been waiting for a couple months! yay!).

I haven’t read a book I’m a long time that had me going ‘of course!’ ‘Bastards!’ and ‘why didn’t I see that???’

If you cannot afford to buy a copy - please know that you can order ANY BOOK from your local library and they have to get it for you. The maximum charge for this service is one pound.

Alas this is not true. If a book is readily available, likely to be read by several people and not fabulously expensive, we will very likely add it to our order. If a book is out of print, weirdly niche, too academic for a public library or so expensive that it means we have to reduce more popular book orders, we are very unlikely to consider a purchase.

Some libraries charge for investigating orders of "off-list" books, some don't, the charge is different in each authority, and may be over £1.

Happily we have several copies of this book in our system already.

Gave five copies as presents this Xmas. Well recieved, still need to finish my Kindle copy!

Ah, thanks Scout!

Deacon I just spent ages searching again for it but no luck. I would think I had imagined it except I remember clearly thinking "bugger, I've just lent that to MIL, hope not too much is wrong" and how well CCP was taking it all. I can even remember the road I was on in the car and time of day, just not the actual research.

Invisible Women is an incredible book, it really opened my eyes. I seriously thought about leaving my copy in our staff room with the message "read this, feel the rage and pass it on!"

why isn't that on posters on buses and trains

Indeed this is a fabulous suggestion, and one I will pay towards. Can someone come up with a way to achieve this? Be it crowd funding or some other way.
I actually would but I'm sodding busy for the year. Maybe standing for women or a.n. other could set it in motion. I'd set up,a direct debit so they could be replaced as and when. Or better still get it printed as standard on timetables and other media.

May I join? I haven’t got further than the introduction of Invisible Women due to other things. It can be my lockdown thing to do

The thing about Shrier unfortunately is that I don’t think she would agree with CCP on almost anything that’s in Invisible Women. She’s a conservative and believes in gender role stereotypes, and thinks that feminism has gone too far.

Meanwhile CCP, even while cataloging women’s sex-based oppression in minute and exhaustive detail, can’t afford to discuss gender identity and keep her audience. Her book has already been cancelled by some women studies departments / book clubs for being trans exclusionary (she says in the prologue that while trans women are women that this book is about the material ways in which being female impacts women - not good enough apparently).

I'll look this one up.

Another interesting (although highly depressing) book is The War on Women.

My BF said today, the thing is those people who read it are those who are interested already, and the people who need to read it wont