Why I didn't say anything : the Sheldon Kennedy story / / Sheldon Kennedy ; with James Grainger
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, : Insomniac Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.76 |
| 362.768 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Sexually abused teenagers - Canada |
| Sexual abuse victims - Canada | |
| Hockey players - Canada | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Why I didn't say anything |
| ISBN: | 1-280-91116-6 |
| 9786610911165 | |
| 1-4593-0060-2 | |
| 1-897415-09-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818864903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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