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hallemarie00 's review for:
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
by Lauren Fleshman
informative
inspiring
My favorite bits of this memoir were the statistical analyses - where Fleshman intertwines her own experience in sport and coaching with the numbers about how many girls drop out of athletics during puberty, and how professional athletes of different genders are treated by brands. The statistics started fading out as the memoir continued, which was a little disappointing.
Near the end there was a lot of commentary on sports fashion/clothing brands, which felt more like easy promo for the brand that she works with and an easy way to diss Nike, rather than meaningful or enriching content that one might want to include in a memoir.
Overall, I appreciated the insight into women in sport. I've never been into fitness myself (until recently - in case you missed all the sports novels and memoirs I'm reading lately ;)), but I have always been into feminism, and this was a nice introductory foray into feminism in sport.
Near the end there was a lot of commentary on sports fashion/clothing brands, which felt more like easy promo for the brand that she works with and an easy way to diss Nike, rather than meaningful or enriching content that one might want to include in a memoir.
Overall, I appreciated the insight into women in sport. I've never been into fitness myself (until recently - in case you missed all the sports novels and memoirs I'm reading lately ;)), but I have always been into feminism, and this was a nice introductory foray into feminism in sport.