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

Gleason et al., who teach educational studies, history, and women's studies at the U. of British Columbia, Canada, bring together 12 essays that examine how vulnerable youth have experienced fewer benefits from twentieth century reforms to labor, medicine, law, and other areas. Contributors, who are scholars of human kinetics, history, law, resource and environmental management, global political economy, and childhood studies in Canada and the US, demonstrate how children's treatment and responses as social actors are often exacerbated through the action and inaction of adults. They draw on a variety of critical perspectives, especially feminism, in discussing the role of the state, families and households, and child welfare and criminal justice, in child and youth studies, with specific discussion of areas such as Aboriginal youth, disability, race and delinquency, adolescence, cross-racial adoption, divorce, and child labor. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The volume editors all teach at the University of British Columbia. Mona Gleason is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies. Tamara Myers and Leslie Paris are associate professors of history and Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor of women's studies and educational studies.