Dare to Make History

Dare to Make History
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Chasing a Dream and Fighting for Equity

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2021

نویسنده

Monique Lamoureux-Morando

شابک

9781635767285
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Kirkus

Two twins recount their glass ceiling-shattering careers in women's hockey in this debut memoir.Lamoureux-Davidson and Lamoureux-Morando started playing competitive hockey when they were 5 years old. They were something of a novelty: twin sisters competing with the boys because there were no girls teams, even in their hockey-obsessed hometown of Grand Forks, North Dakota. In the third grade, Lamoureux-Davidson turned in a school assignment that listed this among her dreams: "When I am seventeen years old, I want to be on the American or Canadian Olympic hockey team with my sister Monique." The girls would indeed go on to play for the American Olympic team, winning silver medals in 2010 and 2014 and bringing home the gold in 2018. For all these accomplishments, it is their work off the ice that they chose to highlight in this memoir: not only their efforts to succeed in a male-dominated sport, but also to change hockey so that the girls who came after them would have an easier time than they did. The twins' activism culminated in a battle with USA Hockey over equal rights for female athletes--a clash that almost led to a boycott of the 2017 World Championships. In between, their account covers the unlikely rise of not just one, but two world-class athletes and the colorful family that surrounded them. The authors split the storytelling duties, alternating between sections narrated from Lamoureux-Davidson's or Lamoureux-Morando's perspective. The prose is a bit stilted, but the content is often thoughtful. Here Lamoureux-Davidson remembers a meeting with USA Hockey: "One of the USA Hockey representatives talked about a USAH staff member's daughter and said because of her influence, he was passionate about 'the other side,' referring to us and women's hockey. I interrupted him. 'That is the problem right there,' I said. 'There are no sides.' " The book works as a traditional achievement memoir, but the advocacy of the authors--based in practical issues like a living wage and maternity leave--makes this a more pointedly feminist narrative than is normal for the genre. It is also the story of a remarkable friendship in which two sisters challenged and motivated each other to reach the top of their field.An inspiring sports account about doing your best while improving the game.

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