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Book SynopsisAfter 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prelude Growing Up 1. Tillie: A Mother’s Life and Early Death 2. Mike: A Father’s Enduring Presence 3. The Jolofsky Family: Keeping the Sabbath and More 4. Childhood and Adolescence: My Mid-Century Toronto 5. Daughter, Step-Daughter, Sister: Relationships Reconfigured Growing Together 6. Student/Wife/Worker: My Roles Begin to Multiply 7. Motherhood: While Living My Husband’s Life 8. Dean’s Wife: Plus Part-Time Work and Grad School 9. Variations on a Theme: Different Environments, Same Situations Still Growing 10. Academia: Tiptoeing into a New Life 11. Difficult Times: Family Trouble and Work Trouble 12. Big Fish, Little Pond: Director, Division of Occupational Therapy 13. Little Fish, Big Pond: Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy 14. Post Chair and Retirement: But Not Ready to Stop 15. From Some Darkness into Light 16. Last Chapter Notes Index
