Book Review of "Women and Leadership in Distance Education in Canada"

This welcome publication focusing on women's leadership and positioning in varied distance education (DE) roles and contexts opens with a very informative, strong, and well researched introduction.The chapters that follow offer insight into the august history of our field as recounted by many of my former colleagues, providing readers with "an authentic glimpse of women's experiences with leadership" (p.15).I was especially happy to see a meaningful quote from DE pioneer and former colleague, Liz Burge, and her co-author Helen Lenskyj, wherein they suggested that "feminist principles of teaching and learner-centred instructional approaches are inherent to distance education contexts and feminist approaches are learner centred" (p.2).