Title:
Lost kids : vulnerable children and youth in twentieth-century Canada and the United States
Author:
Gleason, Mona Lee, 1964-
ISBN:
9780774816861
9780774816878
Publication Information:
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
258 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A haven from racism? Canadians imagine interracial adoption / Karen Dubinsky -- "Forgotten people of all the forgotten" : children with disabilities in English Canada from the nineteenth century to the new millennium / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Lost in modernity : "maladjustment" and the "modern youth problem", English Canada, 1920-50 / Cynthia Comacchio -- James Dean and Jim Crow : boys in the Texas juvenile justice system in the 1950s / William Bush -- Nocturnal disorder and the curfew solution : a history of juvenile sundown regulations in Canada / Tamara Myers -- Learning and leisure on the inside : programs for sick children at Sainte-Justine Hospital, 1925-70 / Denyse Baillargeon -- "Lost voices, lost bodies"? Doctors and the embodiment of children and youth in English Canada from 1900 to the 1940s / Mona Gleason -- What child left behind? US social policy and the hopeless child / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- "The strange way we lived" : divorce and American childhood in the 1970s / Leslie Paris -- Losing the child in child-centred legal processes / Cindy L. Baldassi, Susan B. Boyd, and Fiona Kelly -- Play is not a frill : poor youth facing the past, present, and future of public recreation in Canada / Wendy Frisby, Ted Alexander, and Janna Taylor -- Deregulating child labour in British Columbia / Stephen McBride and John Irwin.
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