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

[WyeWoman]

I keep speaking to people about this amazing book by Caroline Criado Perez called Invisible Women! It is soooo bloody amazing!!
Link here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1113605/invisible-women/9781784741723.html

I need to discuss this with people. This woman is brilliant.

85p? Bargain! I have the hard copy but have been recommending it lots...

I'm a few chapters in.

I'd be genuinely interested to know how much of it is also relevant to trans women. I'm sure some of it is, but we're unlikely to ever really know. If we can't manage to gather stats about half the world's population properly, what are the chances of consistent meaningful recording of gender/trans status on top of that?!

It’s about women.

@MildredsMoustache

I'm a few chapters in.

I'd be genuinely interested to know how much of it is also relevant to trans women. I'm sure some of it is, but we're unlikely to ever really know. If we can't manage to gather stats about half the world's population properly, what are the chances of consistent meaningful recording of gender/trans status on top of that?!

None of it is relevant to transwomen because transwomen are men. The world is already designed around men. This book is about the effect of that on women.

I suppose that comment reinforces the whole premis of the book!

Yes absolutely to both! I was more musing in response to this earlier in the thread:

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).

What do the TRAs want?! Are we literally not allowed to discuss sex based oppression where it's relevant?

So far most of what I've read would be completely irrelevant to trans women (but would presumably be relevant to trans men/non-binary females).

It will, of course, be relevant to so-called transmen, who are women, of course.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62877930

The crash test dummies designed for women drivers

Yes I've read it! It's a great book though it did make me quite angry! I think everyone should read it