This is a book of stories about education and women's lives--the author's and her mother's. It is biography and autobiography written as social history. In the first section, Dr. Lenskyj presents the background for her mother's narrative, beginning in 1832 when her grandfather arrived in Sydney. Australia, as a convict. She examines her own girlhood experiences in the 1950s as a child of working class parents who was an outsider in a private girls' school. Using sources from Australian women's history, women's studies, and critical social theory, she situates the two stories in the broader, Australian socio-cultural context of 1900 to 1960. The narrative then moves to the Canadian educational context, documenting the interventions of mothers involved in school-community activism in the 1960s and 1970s in the Toronto Board of Education, and the author's own experiences in a school-community council. The author also examines lesbian and gay activism aimed at educational change in the 1980s and 1990s, including her own role on the writing team that prepared curriculum guidelines on homophobia and sexual orientations for Toronto teachers. Finally, Dr. Lenskyj reflects on her experiences since 1986 as an openly lesbian professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and discusses developments in anti-oppression teaching in the university in the 1990s.

A Lot To Learn

History

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Australia & Oceania

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This book is about women who shatter myths, take control and find their own power in the challenge of living with AIDS. This is an insightful and emotionally moving book which informs and inspires.

Positive Women

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Andrea Rudd

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The ideal resource for adolescent girls anticipating their first period all young women who want to learn more about the changes that a woman's body goes through during this time in her life ""What's going on with my body?"" ""What does menstruation feel like?"" ""How will my friends react?"" Unlike the standard ""just-the-facts"" approach, this book of short stories and factual information provides the reader with her very own confidantes, others who share a common experience. Sweet Secrets dispels myths with current, up-to-date health information about menstruation. A unique and reassuring collection, it empowers young women to celebrate this rite of passage with informed confidence.

Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation

Children's Books

O'Grady, Kathleen

Wansbrough, Paula

Literature & Fiction

Dubbed "the Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey," Angela James became the most dominant female player on the planet from the early 1980s through the mid 1990s. Her rise to hockey stardom, however, was a true long shot. During a difficult childhood plagued by near-poverty and familial chaos, hockey was James's escape. Talent and determination eventually took this hockey pioneer from struggling for ice time on boys' teams to the Hockey Hall of Fame, where, in 2010, she became the first woman, first openly gay player and second black athlete to ever be inducted. Angela James: The First Superstar of Canadian Women's Hockey charts James's rise to stardom from learning how to play on borrowed skates to dominating as an international success, from her controversial exclusion from the 1998 Olympic women's hockey team and its aftermath to becoming the passionate educator, coach and mother that she is today. This authorized biography features exclusive access to James, as well as one-on-one interviews with those who know her best, including some of the biggest names in women's hockey, such as Hayley Wickenheiser, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Bob Nicholson, Melody Davidson and Cammi Granato.

Angela James: The First Superstar of Women's Hockey (Women Who Rock)

Teen & Young Adult

Bartsiokas, Tom

Long, Corey

Biographies

One Kind Word

Politics & Social Sciences

Kathryn Palmateer

Women's Studies

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