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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818864903321

Autore

Kennedy Sheldon

Titolo

Why I didn't say anything : the Sheldon Kennedy story / / Sheldon Kennedy ; with James Grainger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Insomniac Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-91116-6

9786610911165

1-4593-0060-2

1-897415-09-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

362.76

362.768

Soggetti

Sexually abused teenagers - Canada

Sexual abuse victims - Canada

Hockey players - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor-league coach, Graham James - the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year - had sexually abused him more than 300 times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from Newfoundland to British Columbia to raise awareness of sexual abuse. The skate raised over 1 million for Canadian Red Cross sexual abuse programs, and Kenned