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Invisible Women / Girl, Woman, Other / Queenie / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
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Caroline Criado Pérez
17 books1,744 followersCaroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a commentator on a wide range of topics.
Notable campaigns include getting a female historical figure on Bank of England banknotes; getting Twitter to introduce a "report abuse" button on tweets; getting the first statue of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) in Parliament Square.
Her first book, Do it Like a Woman, was published by Portobello in 2015. It was described as “a must-read” by the Sunday Independent and “rousing and immensely readable” by Good Housekeeping who selected it as their “best non-fiction”. Eleanor Marx hailed it in the New Statesman as “an extended and immersive piece of investigative journalism,” while Bridget Christie chose it as one of her books of the year in the Guardian, declaring that “young girls and women everywhere should have a copy.”
Her second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, was published in March 2019 by Chatto & Windus in the UK & Abrams in the US. It is a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 16 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. It is being translated into nineteen languages, and is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It was described by Caitlin Moran as "one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research." Melanie Reid in The Times called Invisible Women "a game-changer...making an unanswerable case and doing so brilliantly…the ambition and scope – and sheer originality – of Invisible Women is huge...It should be on every policymaker, politician and manager’s shelves," a sentiment that was echoed by Nicola Sturgeon who described it as "revelatory," adding that "it should be required reading for policy and decision makers everywhere."
Caroline lives in London with her small excitable dog, Poppy, has a degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford, and studied behavioural and feminist economics at the LSE. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, and was named OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015.
Notable campaigns include getting a female historical figure on Bank of England banknotes; getting Twitter to introduce a "report abuse" button on tweets; getting the first statue of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) in Parliament Square.
Her first book, Do it Like a Woman, was published by Portobello in 2015. It was described as “a must-read” by the Sunday Independent and “rousing and immensely readable” by Good Housekeeping who selected it as their “best non-fiction”. Eleanor Marx hailed it in the New Statesman as “an extended and immersive piece of investigative journalism,” while Bridget Christie chose it as one of her books of the year in the Guardian, declaring that “young girls and women everywhere should have a copy.”
Her second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, was published in March 2019 by Chatto & Windus in the UK & Abrams in the US. It is a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 16 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. It is being translated into nineteen languages, and is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It was described by Caitlin Moran as "one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research." Melanie Reid in The Times called Invisible Women "a game-changer...making an unanswerable case and doing so brilliantly…the ambition and scope – and sheer originality – of Invisible Women is huge...It should be on every policymaker, politician and manager’s shelves," a sentiment that was echoed by Nicola Sturgeon who described it as "revelatory," adding that "it should be required reading for policy and decision makers everywhere."
Caroline lives in London with her small excitable dog, Poppy, has a degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford, and studied behavioural and feminist economics at the LSE. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, and was named OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015.
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June 16, 2021
Girl, women, other has been one of my FAVS this year! Couldn’t recommend it more!!
May 21, 2024
Hab ganz viel neues gelernt :)
Empfehlenswert für jeden Menschen (also nicht nur aber auch Männer)
Empfehlenswert für jeden Menschen (also nicht nur aber auch Männer)
April 17, 2022
"there was no paper trail
she was a foundling
anonymous
unidentified
mysterious"
Girl, Woman, Other is a book written by Bernardine Evaristo a woman of substance, creativity and a wonderful story teller. Before I begin writing about how I liked the book, it's important to tell you about the author. She is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020.
And now let's see why I rated this book a 5 star. Firstly, the writing style of the book is soo compelling and comprehensive that a reader is definitely entwined into it. Less use of capital letters, more of prose like sentence framing, unexpected line changes and a lot of different writing has made it worth reading. You have to fill in the emotions and get the things done.
The story is not one character specific, but has different characters each from a totally unique background. They are connected to each other with an identity the author feels privileged for, the black! Out of the different narratives in the book I loved the 1st one the most, of Amma. The lives of Black woman, as a girl Woman and always as the other is talked about in the book in details. I am soo much into this genre already that not for a minute did I felt to leave the book.
The lives of Black woman, like a lesbian, can be soo difficult in a place like UK! Isn't? That's how the book moves on.. with experiences of woman from different backgrounds. Overall it was a pleasant experience reading this book.
Highly recommend if you are interested in reading woman written by a women.
she was a foundling
anonymous
unidentified
mysterious"
Girl, Woman, Other is a book written by Bernardine Evaristo a woman of substance, creativity and a wonderful story teller. Before I begin writing about how I liked the book, it's important to tell you about the author. She is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020.
And now let's see why I rated this book a 5 star. Firstly, the writing style of the book is soo compelling and comprehensive that a reader is definitely entwined into it. Less use of capital letters, more of prose like sentence framing, unexpected line changes and a lot of different writing has made it worth reading. You have to fill in the emotions and get the things done.
The story is not one character specific, but has different characters each from a totally unique background. They are connected to each other with an identity the author feels privileged for, the black! Out of the different narratives in the book I loved the 1st one the most, of Amma. The lives of Black woman, as a girl Woman and always as the other is talked about in the book in details. I am soo much into this genre already that not for a minute did I felt to leave the book.
The lives of Black woman, like a lesbian, can be soo difficult in a place like UK! Isn't? That's how the book moves on.. with experiences of woman from different backgrounds. Overall it was a pleasant experience reading this book.
Highly recommend if you are interested in reading woman written by a women.
May 17, 2021
General knowledge densely packed. An overall great book on the inequality between women and men in the society, at home, at work, and even materials produces such as cars, belts, seats, hand grips and more.
The detailed statistics and the journey on facts all around the world makes you look everything around you an extra time and genuinely see things that have been under your nose for years.
The detailed statistics and the journey on facts all around the world makes you look everything around you an extra time and genuinely see things that have been under your nose for years.
August 24, 2022
The first 100 pages were quite slow and hard to get in to. However, I was unable to put it down after this. The last chapter was fantastic and showed how life comes around full circle. I give it a 3.5!
January 12, 2024
Verstehe den Hype nicht. Liest sich so nebenbei weg, ja, aber das es international so viel Anerkennung bekommen hat verstehe ich nicht. Relativ zusammenhangslos obwohl man die ganze Zeit auf die große Zusammenführung der Geschichten wartet.
September 5, 2021
Excellent insight into how women are under represented in the whole of society
May 6, 2022
Girl, Women, Other
A book following 12 female characters, their stories entwined. Explores feminism, race and sexuality and the perceptions on these from the different characters.
A book following 12 female characters, their stories entwined. Explores feminism, race and sexuality and the perceptions on these from the different characters.
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February 4, 2023
Broadening horizons
June 13, 2023
I struggled sometimes to find it engaging but when I got to the bits that are it’s so addictive. I feel it educated me and help me understand another person’s experience while creating a conversation
April 7, 2024
3.7⭐
Invisible Women
a bit dry
very informative
eye-opening
Plato (wtf)
Hystera/ Hysterical
Womb, for real?!
Invisible Women
a bit dry
very informative
eye-opening
Plato (wtf)
Hystera/ Hysterical
Womb, for real?!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 29, 2024
Girl, women, other was one of my favourite books last summer. The stories of each character were so well written to provide an insight into their life and I loved how they all tied together.
February 5, 2025
Girl, women, other
April 4, 2024
This book was jam packed and v informative for those new to this important topic. Lots of things I knew already but no so what or next steps which I was waiting for
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