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Field of Dreams: Helen Lenskyj in Profile
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When author Helen Lenskyj showed her first book on women and sport to her former gym teacher, her teacher could not believe her eyes.
"She practically fainted," says the Australian-born teacher and activist.
Lenskyj, who lives in Toronto, was not the jock type as a schoolgirl, but that didn't stop her from noticing the difference between the ways girls and boys relate to athletics, or how commercial interests can corrupt organized sports. Now teaching women's studies courses on health, diversity and education at OISE, Lenskyj has just release her fifth book, Out On The Field: Gender, Sport And Sexualities (Women's Press, 2003). It deepens the political analysis she began …
