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If you have this book on your shelf because you think it has worthwhile feminist content just put it in your recycling, the sooner the better. The Woman Who Walked in Her Husband’s Shoes is an example of this. The woman in the story literally walks in her husband’s shoes and she is immediately treated very differently. She could see life from her husband’s perspective and was quite surprised by what she discovered. Cecelia Ahern has taken a different direction in her writing with this feminist collection of short stories that celebrate women in all their glorious diversity with every story title beginning with The Woman Who. The book begins with the following epigraph: These short stories take the typical social cues and norms that afflict any female and personifies it in such an excruciating way. Every societal compliance is twisted into a literal story line. Each story is told with a fairy tale-like quality to it; a third person point of view with a very far away perspective. I quite liked that, but it didn't make me relate even though these stories were written to put into printed language the struggles of modern day women. The titles of the stories are apt and give you an idea about how the story is going to proceed and once you finish reading a chapter/story you will feel overwhelmed at the accurate description and potrayal of women. You would rather be surprised at how she manages to hit the chord of your heart with most of the tales.
i really had no idea what to expect from this book. I don't read short story collections often, and it had been a while since I last read a book by the author.One woman is tortured by sinister bite marks that appear on her skin; another is swallowed up by the floor during a mortifying presentation; yet another resolves to return and exchange her boring husband at the store where she originally acquired him. The women at the center of this curious universe learn that their reality is shaped not only by how others perceive them, but also how they perceive the power within themselves. This revised edition includes a wealth of new research developments, expanded recommendations based on those findings, and updates to reflect the changing landscape of women’s sports, including:
I ended up loving this entire collection. The thirty stories are a mix of far-fetched, grounded in the familiar, comedic, and painful. All are told in a straight-forward manner, where we take the fantastical elements as reality and are faced with considering how our world's definitions of women's lives and women's roles might look if all the euphemisms and catchphrases for the assumptions and barriers facing women became literal parts of the everyday world. For there is a women and her sisters who literally unravel and fall to pieces, there is a woman who has been put on a shelf by her husband for her whole life and lives on a shelf. There is one who due to a birth defect has her heart on her sleeve the whole time - you will know people that have this quality, even if they clearly don't have their heart outside their body. She's spent so many years sitting up here representing an extension of Ronald, of his achievements, that she no longer has any idea what she represents to herself. Some of the stories are quite eye opening and others rather amusing. Some of them take on a dystopian sort of world where there are new laws to make certain things now illegal, which really makes you think. Other favorites of mine are the stories The Woman Who Walked in Her Husband's Shoes, The Woman Who Was a Featherbrain, and the The Woman Who Was Pigeonholed. But really, they're all terrific. The tales are simple. You might at first glance find the premise a little obvious, but really, taken as a whole, these fables illustrated different aspects of what it means to be a woman, how we are defined by society, ourselves, and each other, and how perception and awareness can change everything. There's a lightness and humor in many stories, even as the situations, taken to their logical (or illogical) conclusion can be nightmarish.
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What was supposed to be an inspiring, feminist read turned out to be patronizing, trite, and so so heavy-handed. The author hammered you over the head with each story's lesson, frequently using men to mansplain the lesson to the central female character. Really a head-scratching aspect there. ROARR! includes over 25 dinosaur themed attractions across 85 acres, complete with rides, play areas, splash park, theatre, eateries and a secret animal garden. By turns sly, whimsical and affecting, these 30 short stories are an inspiring examination of what it means to be a woman today. The groundbreaking book that revolutionized exercise nutrition and performance for female athletes, now freshly updated
This book was written in 2016; a lot of what was written felt commonsense to me. Things like: don't avoid carbs (never have, never will), get enough sleep (I have walked out of gatherings announcing I HAVE TO SLEEP. You don't have to tell me twice), don't fast (duh! but also thank you for saying it out loud), and drink water, or water with extra stuff in it when you're sweating a lot (yes, though I do have to get better about fueling during a long workout).
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Dr. Sims realizes that female athletes are different than male athletes and you can’t set your race schedule around your monthly cycle. ROAR will help every athlete understand what is happening to her body and what the best nutritional strategy is to perform at her very best.”—Evie Stevens, Olympian, professional road cyclist, and current women’s UCI Hour record holder People keep asking me for training programs so I teamed up with ECFIT to put together a strength training program for female athletes designed to optimize bone, muscle, and metabolic health.
Roar is a sharp, creative collection of short stories that highlight all the responsibilities, expectations, and discriminations that society places on women, as well as the self-reproach, pressure, and need for validation we as women place on ourselves. For females, low-carb, high fat and protein diets and intermittent fasting result in muscle loss, not fat loss. Boo. It can pause periods. This is bad. Eat some protein and carbs within half an hour of hardcore exercise.What lured me in: the promise of a discussion about adapting around the natural hormonal waves my body experiences month-to-month. That was a big part of what the Reddit chatter had been about. There is one chapter on this (pgs 16-34). I don't know that I want to take Zinc, Magnesium, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, and Aspirin every day for the 7 days leading up to my period. That's a lot of supplements to counteract a bit of a performance slump. But I'm not a professional athlete so **shrug**. All this to say: this chapter didn't do much for me save for validating the dip I see in my physical capabilities each month. The titles of these 30 stories all begin with the words The Woman Who. Each focuses on a woman experiencing some sort of literal manifestation of the types of issues we all encounter more figuratively in our worlds. Women need to see women too. If we don't see each other, if we don't see ourselves, how can we expect anybody else to?" This book is perfect for people with busy lifestyles, in approx just five minutes you can have finished one of the stories. For those of us with not completely hectic full on lives, the entire book can be devoured in a long and lazy afternoon - with plenty of time for a few tea or (and!) coffee breaks. I really enjoyed the story of 'The Woman Who Forgot Her Name' and particularly liked the story 'The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared'.
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