On behalf of the Feminist History Society (FeministHistories.ca) we are inviting you to contribute to a new and important edited book on woman and sport in Canada. This book will be part of a series produced by the Feminist History Society recording “second-wave” feminist history in Canada. To date we have published, Feminist Journeys/Voies Feministes (ed, Marguerite Anderson) and Writing the Revolution (by Michele Landsberg).  In 2012, a third book by Micheline Dumont will be released.

We are focusing this new book on girls, women, gender and sport between 1960 – 2010, and hope to capture a range of issues, highlights, challenges, approaches, experiences…etc. There was tremendous change in the landscape of women and sport in these decades, and the stories attached to these events are important to record and share.

We would like to have your contribution and perspectives in this book. We look forward to your ideas and commitment to write and contribute. We will include a range of perspectives from those who have had an significant involvement in how girls’ and women’s sport developed in Canada over the last half century.

Some suggested areas for your contribution are

The contributors will be women and men who are athletes, coaches, administrators, volunteers, teachers and scholars, from all regions of Canada in English or in French. We hope to represent a range of sports, experiences, and perspectives on feminism in the context of sport.

Are you interested?   If so …

1. Please send an expression of interest and a paragraph (max. 150 words) about what you propose to cover to lorrainegreaves@hotmail.com by March 30, 2012
2. Please pass this invitation to others who might be interested

Once your contribution is accepted (by April 10), one of the four editors will work with you as you prepare the contribution, deadline July 1, 2012.
We are open to different lengths, tone, types of work and topics.

Please Note: We will be encouraging contributors to become a member of the Feminist History Society to facilitate the development of the book. More information

With a voice all her own, coming from a deep feminist inside, Michele has engaged with the second wave of the women’s movement in Canada more than any other writer in Canada.  Her perspective and experience spans the full 50 years from 1960 to 2010.  Her opinions, always careful and sometimes controversial inside and outside the movement, have mattered to women’s lives.

After graduating from the University of  Toronto in 1962 (it awarded her an honorary degree in 2008), Michele joined The Globe and Mail.  From 1971 to 1978, she was part of the halcyon days of Chatelaine, then under the editorship of Doris Anderson.

Apart from a return stint with The Globe and Mail, Michele wrote a daily column in the Toronto Star from 1978 to 2005.  Ostensibly retired then, Michele continued her activist work and chaired the board of Women’s College Hospital until 2009 during a critical phase in its on-going fight to stay women-centred and run.

Revisiting what her columns chronicled about the second wave of the women’s movement in Canada, Michele will reflect on the characteristics, successes and failures of this movement over its 50 years.  With her trademark blend of kindness, toughness, bluntness and humour, we will hear her distinctive voice on where we have been and where we should go.