Dr. Shoshana Magnet

Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

Children's books, children's books on social justice, children's books on mental health, picture books, feminism, writing, gender studies

Media

What’s feminism got to do with it?

TERRA FIRMA: A Single Mother Discovers Community

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Biography

Dr. Shoshana Magnet is an associate professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She writes a listserv on picture books that talk about big feelings and topics, including divorce, grief, anger, sadness as well as issues related to social justice like racism, sexism and homophobia. Subscribe to her listserv: Feminist Picturebooks. She is available to give talks and happy to recommend picturebooks for families going through divorce, as well as dealing with children with anxiety, grief and other big feelings.

Expertise

  • children's books
  • children's books on mental health
  • children's books on social justice
  • picturebooks
  • feminism
  • writing
  • gender studies