Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This book provides an in-depth examination of gender, sport and sexualities; an analysis of the limitations of liberal feminist responses; and an exploration of radical feminist alternatives. Dr. Lenskyj presents illuminating case studies from Canada, the United States and Australia, with exposes of coaches' and administrators' complicity in perpetuating the chilly climate for female athletes in general, and for lesbians in particular...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Feminist Helen Lenskyj presents an insightful examination of the links between women's participation in sports and the control of their reproductive capacity and sexuality. She identifies the female frailty myth, the illusion of male athletic superiority, and the concept of compulsory heterosexuality as powerful determinants of'masculinity' and 'femininity' in the realm of sport...read more