{"id":14659,"date":"2022-11-01T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=14659"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:35:25","slug":"how-womens-hockey-saved-the-world-and-defeated-george-w-bush-but-not-necessarily-in-that-order-by-m-alexander-charns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=14659","title":{"rendered":"How Women’s Hockey Saved the World* (and defeated Donald Trump, but not necessarily in that order) by M. Alexander Charns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poignant, philosophical, humorous, and wise\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A part handbook on hockey and a part political satire, Charns\u2019s latest book is both wholly hilarious and deeply reflecting. The narrative straightaway delves into prejudice based on gender, especially in the field of ice hockey, and the story that follows is periodically interrupted by Charns\u2019s hilarious tips on the vigorous sport as he narrates his family story, including his son and daughter\u2019s passion for the sport and his missteps as a hockey dad and husband. Depending on the topic, Charms\u2019s assured writing can make those bits of family stories look wholly dramatic or wickedly humorous: \u201cThe commands flew: \u201cTighter. Looser. Little tighter.\u201d Then came the insults\u201d \u201cDad, you\u2019re an idiot.\u201d LOOSER. \u201cYou\u2019re trying to choke me! Can\u2019t you make it tighter? I hate you!! Loosen it, I can\u2019t breathe. Ask the other coach to do it. You don\u2019t know how.\u201d Charms has a sharp eye for the comic absurdity of everyday life situations. But what makes the book rise above other books in genre is Charns\u2019s deft treatment of gender disparity in men\u2019s sports (As the only 100 pounds, 5\u20192\u201d 16-year-old female hockey player for Hillsborough Sharks, WJ, Charms\u2019s daughter, often finds herself becoming a target of demeaning slurs from six-foot tall, burly male players of the opposing team.). Charms imagines a parallel universe, in which a billionaire misogynist is treated to female hockey player\u2019s fancy hockey stick work on his nether parts and come to his senses. In the real world, he emphasizes the importance of staying well informed and cheering for the girls who venture into this manly fields of sports. A winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Women\u2019s Hockey Saved the World* (And Defeated DonaldTrump, but Not Necessarily in That Order)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M. Alexander Charns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poignant, philosophical, humorous, and wise\u2026 A part handbook on hockey and a part political satire, Charns\u2019s latest book is both wholly hilarious and deeply reflecting. The narrative straightaway delves into prejudice based on gender, especially in the field of ice hockey, and the story that follows is periodically interrupted by Charns\u2019s hilarious tips on the vigorous sport as he narrates his family story, including his son and daughter\u2019s passion for the sport and his missteps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":14680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7223,91,3328,178,1136176,37760,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-political-satire","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/HowWomen27sHockeycoverwj28229-1.jpg?fit=1369%2C2021&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-3Or","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14682,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions\/14682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}