Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson
- Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she had worked since 1986. A leading academic researcher on the Olympics, Helen has authored three books on the Games, the most recent published this year, Olympic Industry Resistance: Challenging Olympic Power and Propaganda (SUNY, 2008). Her other critiques of the Olympic industry include: The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts of Sydney 2000 (2002); and Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism (2000).
In these books, Dr. Lenskyj challenges Olympic “legacy” mythologies that she argues serve the interests of corporate capitalism. She documents the real Olympic legacy: poverty, housing crises, threats to human rights, and environmental damage.
Helen has been a teacher, an early childhood educator, and a community activist. Her wider research combines radical, socialist, and feminist perspectives, and focuses on gender, sport and sexualities. She has contributed about seventy articles and reviews to journals and periodicals, including Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sociology of Sport Journal, Sporting Traditions, World Leisure and Recreation Association Journal, Journal of Australian Studies, Canadian Woman Studies, Fireweed, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Historical Studies in Education, Gender and Education, and Culture, Sport, and Society. Her hobbies are swimming, canoeing and water colour painting.
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