Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

4 reviews

emilyclairemay's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

mscalls's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Alcohol, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Alcoholism

write2run's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Racism, Misogyny, Sexism, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

meg_charest's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was so many things to me, and I think it will continue to be. I was skeptical when I picked it up on recommendation from a friend who also runs, but this is the reckoning I needed as an individual, that running needs as a sport, and that we need in society as a whole. I can’t recommend enough and so appreciate the depth and thought and acute truth of this book. This gave me so much to consider and act on, and I think it could be a major call to action and reform for a sport that means so much to me (and so many others) but that is also so deeply harmful in such normalized and ingrained ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Eating disorder