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Social Science Children's Studies

Lost Kids

Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States

edited by Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, Leslie Paris & Veronica Strong-Boag

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2010
Category
Children's Studies, North America
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859011
    Publish Date
    Jul 2010
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774816878
    Publish Date
    Jul 2010
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774816861
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $37.95

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Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, they have motivated many adult-driven schemes to effect a positive future. But have all children benefited from these programs and initiatives? Lost Kids examines adults’ misgivings about, and the inadequate care of, vulnerable children. From explorations of interracial adoption and the treatment of children with disabilities to discussions of the cultural construction of the hopeless child, this multifaceted collection rejects the essentialism of the “priceless child” or “lost youth” – simplistic categories that continue to shape the treatment of those who deviate from the so-called norm.

About the authors

Mona Gleason, PhD, is an associate professor and the co-ordinator of the Society, Culture, and Politics in Education Program in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings an historical perspective to the study of education, children, and youth in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Tamara Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.

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Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor of women’s and gender studies and of educational studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association. She has written widely on the history of Canadian women and children—including studies of the 1920s and 30s, the experience of post—WW II suburbia, Nellie L. McClung, E. Pauline Johnson, childhood disabilities, and modern neo-conservatism’s attack on women and children—and has won the John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History, the 2012 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibansky Prize in the Humanities. In 2012 Strong-Boag was awarded the Tyrrell Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding work in Canadian history. She is the author of Fostering Nation: Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLU Press, 2010).

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