Social Science Women's Studies
Pauline Jewett
A Passion for Canada
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1999
- Category
- Women's Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773518223
- Publish Date
- Apr 1999
- List Price
- $60.00
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Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett's childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party and as a university president. President of Simon Fraser University from 1974 to 1978, she was the first woman to be appointed president of a public coeducational post-secondary institution in Canada. Jewett faced many challenges in her life, as a woman, an academic, a nationalist, and a social reformer. With tenacity and perseverance she overcame a number of social and gender barriers in place in Canada, becoming an important role model to a generation of younger women At the end of her life, she faced her greatest challenge - cancer - and fought this with her characteristic good humour, courage, and dignity.