Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
There Was a Time for Everything
A Memoir
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2023
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies, Post-Confederation (1867-), Jewish Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487546953
- Publish Date
- Mar 2023
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487546960
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
After the death of her mother when she turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband’s academic career, she continued her formal education through part-time study and gradually began a journey tailored to herself as an individual. In her forties, she embarked on her own academic career, rising through the ranks to become a tenured full professor and chair of the department of occupational therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In There Was a Time for Everything, Friedland reflects on her life and the fact that over time she managed to "have it all" – just not all at once.
About the author
Judith Friedland is a professor emerita in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Restoring the Spirit: The Beginnings of Occupational Therapy in Canada, 1890–1930.