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UNINA9910818864903321 |
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Autore |
Kennedy Sheldon |
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Titolo |
Why I didn't say anything : the Sheldon Kennedy story / / Sheldon Kennedy ; with James Grainger |
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Toronto, : Insomniac Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-91116-6 |
9786610911165 |
1-4593-0060-2 |
1-897415-09-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Sexually abused teenagers - Canada |
Sexual abuse victims - Canada |
Hockey players - Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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