It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Pretended: Schools and Section 28 by Catherine Lee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'. Catherine Lee was a teacher in schools for each of the 15 years that Section 28 was law (between 1988 and 2003). In Pretended, she considers the landscape for lesbian and gay teachers leading up to, during and after Section 28. Drawing on her diary entries from the Section 28 era, Lee poignantly recalls the challenges and incidents affecting her and thousands of other teachers during...
Pretended: Schools and Section 28 by Catherine Lee is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Pretended: Schools and Section 28 aloud.
Pretended: Schools and Section 28 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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