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Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation
A reassuring collection that empowers young women to celebrate this rite of passage with informed confidence.
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First published January 1, 1997
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Kathleen O'Grady
9 books6 followersKathleen O'Grady is a writer, editor and political and media strategist living in Ottawa, Canada.
She is a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and the author and editor of numerous books and articles on health policy, women's and cultural issues.
She is also the Managing Editor of EvidenceNetwork.ca, which work with academic experts to provide original health policy content for the mainstream media, including hundreds of op-eds published in major news outlets across the country every year.
She is the Founding Director of QUOI Media Group, specializing in political, policy and media research and strategy consulting; her clients include the Senate of Canada, Social Research and Development Corporation, the Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy, the Documentary Organization of Canada and many more politicians, NGOs, musicians, artists and authors.
Her book publications include four edited volumes on health policy in the media with Evidence Network; with Paula Wansbrough, she authored Sweet Secrets (Sumach); and, with Morny Joy and Judith Poxon, French Feminism and Religion (Routledge); and Religion in French Feminist Thought (Routledge). She also edited Bodies, Lives, Voices with Jan Gray and Ann Gilroy (Sheffield; Bloomsbury). She has also authored children's fiction, including First Words: Patti Kay's Dreamworks (Bayeux).
Her writings on health, sexuality, and women's and cultural issues have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers in North America, including: The Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Women's Review of Books, BUST magazine and many others.
Kathleen has been educated in the field of religion from a cultural studies perspective at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has lectured in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and Wilfrid Laurier University. She was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar and a former Bank of Montréal Visiting Scholar at the University of Ottawa.
She is also a volunteer editor with Wikipedia on the Canada Project. She was previously on the board of directors for Girls Action Foundation/Fondation filles d'action, and a past volunteer board member for the Parent Resource Centre, an organization funded by the Ontario government serving under-represented families in the community.
Specialties
Public Policy (health, women's and cultural issues), methodology (qualitative research), political strategy and media relations.
She is a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and the author and editor of numerous books and articles on health policy, women's and cultural issues.
She is also the Managing Editor of EvidenceNetwork.ca, which work with academic experts to provide original health policy content for the mainstream media, including hundreds of op-eds published in major news outlets across the country every year.
She is the Founding Director of QUOI Media Group, specializing in political, policy and media research and strategy consulting; her clients include the Senate of Canada, Social Research and Development Corporation, the Evidence Network of Canadian Health Policy, the Documentary Organization of Canada and many more politicians, NGOs, musicians, artists and authors.
Her book publications include four edited volumes on health policy in the media with Evidence Network; with Paula Wansbrough, she authored Sweet Secrets (Sumach); and, with Morny Joy and Judith Poxon, French Feminism and Religion (Routledge); and Religion in French Feminist Thought (Routledge). She also edited Bodies, Lives, Voices with Jan Gray and Ann Gilroy (Sheffield; Bloomsbury). She has also authored children's fiction, including First Words: Patti Kay's Dreamworks (Bayeux).
Her writings on health, sexuality, and women's and cultural issues have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers in North America, including: The Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Women's Review of Books, BUST magazine and many others.
Kathleen has been educated in the field of religion from a cultural studies perspective at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has lectured in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and Wilfrid Laurier University. She was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar and a former Bank of Montréal Visiting Scholar at the University of Ottawa.
She is also a volunteer editor with Wikipedia on the Canada Project. She was previously on the board of directors for Girls Action Foundation/Fondation filles d'action, and a past volunteer board member for the Parent Resource Centre, an organization funded by the Ontario government serving under-represented families in the community.
Specialties
Public Policy (health, women's and cultural issues), methodology (qualitative research), political strategy and media relations.
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April 26, 2012The ideal resource for adolescent girls anticipating their first period all young women who want to learn more about the changes that a woman's body goes through during this time in her life "What's going on with my body?" "What does menstruation feel like?" "How will my friends react?" Unlike the standard "just-the-facts" approach, this book of short stories and factual information provides the reader with her very own confidantes, others who share a common experience. Sweet Secrets dispels myths with current, up-to-date health information about menstruation. A unique and reassuring collection, it empowers young women to celebrate this rite of passage with informed confidence.
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