Draft:Helen Lenskyj
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (born April 15, 1943) is a Canadian sociologist.
Biography
[edit]Lenskyj was born on April 15, 1943 in Sydney, Australia,[1] to a working-class family of English and Scottish descent.[2] Her great-grandfather was exiled to an Australian penal colony.[2] She was educated at Kambala School[3] and the Sydney Kindergarten Teachers' College, where she obtained her diploma in early childhood education in 1964.[1]
After emigrating to Canada, she worked as an instructor and program supervisor for the Ministry of Culture and Recreation while studying at the University of Toronto,[2] where she got a BA in 1977.[1] In addition to working as a lecturer at James Cook University in 1978, she did graduate studies at UT, where she got a MA in 1981 and a PhD in 1983.[1] Her doctoral dissertation was The role of physical education in the socialization of girls in Ontario, 1890-1930.[4]
In 1986, she began working at UToronto's Faculty of Education (now the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) as a part-time instructor.[2] She was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1997,[2] before retiring in 2007.[1] She also worked as a senior research officer at UToronto, as well as a research advisor for the government's Fitness and Amateur Sport Women's Program and a research network member for the Premier's Council on Health, Well-being, and Social Justice.[2]
Her research focuses on women in sport and Olympic movement studies.[1] She won the 1990 Canadian Women & Sport Breakthrough Award for her work on the history of women in sport, as well as the 1991 Ontario Historical Society Riddell Award.[2] She was co-editor of the journal Resources for Feminist Research (1987-1990), as well as an editorial board member for Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal (1993-1996) and Journal of Sport and Social Issues (1994-?).[2] In 2005, she wrote an autobiography called A Lot to Learn.[2] She has also written instruction manuals aimed at educators.[2]
She is lesbian and became involved in LGBT activism, including with The ArQuives.[2] In 2004, she was made a Toronto municipal Persons Day award recipient in connection to her women's rights activism.[2]
She lives in Toronto.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (1986)[5][6]
- Women, Sport, and Physical Activity: Research and Bibliography, Fitness and Amateur Sport (1988)[2]
- Women, Sport, and Physical Activity: Selected Research Themes (1994)[2]
- Inside the Olympic Industry (2000)[7]
- The Best Ever Olympics: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000 (2002)[8]
- Out on the Field (2003)[9]
- A Lot to Learn (2005)[10][11]
- Olympic Industry Resistance (2008)[12][13]
- Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (2018)[14][15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Helen J. Lenskyj fonds". discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson 1943-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
- ^ "Helen Jefferson Lenskyj". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
- ^ Lenskyj, Helen (1984). The role of physical education in the socialization of girls in Ontario, 1890-1930 (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. OCLC 16033543.
- ^ Heisch, Allison (1988). "Sporting Chances". The Women's Review of Books. 6 (1): 1–4. doi:10.2307/4020306. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 4020306.
- ^ Todd, Jan; Todd, Terry (1989). "Review of Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality". Journal of Sport History. 16 (1): 86–89. ISSN 0094-1700. JSTOR 43609387.
- ^ Lüschen, Günther (2001). "Review of Inside the Olympic Industry. Power, Politics, and Activism". The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. 26 (4): 685–688. doi:10.2307/3341503. ISSN 0318-6431. JSTOR 3341503.
- ^ McTeer, William (2003). "The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impact of Sydney 2000". OLYMPIKA: The International Journal of Olympic Studies. 12: 63–64.
- ^ Roper, Emily A. (2004). "Out on the field: Gender, sport and sexualities". Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. 13 (2): 100-101 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Belcher, S.M. (2006). "Book Review: A Lot to Learn: Girls, Women, and Education in the 20th Century". Journal of International Women's Studies. 8 (1): 293–295. ISSN 1539-8706.
- ^ Carroll, James T. (October 1, 2006). "Helen Jefferson Lenskyj. A Lot to Learn: Girls, Women, and Education in the 20th Century". Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation: 246–247. doi:10.32316/hse/rhe.v18i2.358. ISSN 1911-9674.
- ^ Bairner, Alan (2009). "Review of Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda". The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie. 34 (3): 969–972. ISSN 0318-6431.
- ^ Broucek, Mark (2010). "Review of Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda, Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson". Journal of Sport History. 37 (1): 171–172. doi:10.5406/jsporthistory.37.1.171. ISSN 0094-1700.
- ^ Rothera, Evan C. (2019). "Review of Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson". Journal of Sport History. 46 (3): 421–423. doi:10.5406/jsporthistory.46.3.0421. ISSN 0094-1700.
- ^ Teetzel, Sarah (June 8, 2022). "Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj". Journal of Emerging Sport Studies. 7. doi:10.26522/jess.v7i.3973. ISSN 2562-3184.