Table of Contents:
  • I. Young and invisible. Homeless children and families : the discards of the postmodern 1990s / Valerie Polakow
  • Living with violence : white working-class girls and women talk / Lois Weis and Julia Marusza
  • The crisis within the crisis : the growing epidemic of AIDS orphans / Shelley Geballe and Janice Gruendel
  • Immigrant children : art as a second language / Cristina Igoa
  • Urban Appalachian children : an "invisible minority" in city schools / Kathleen Bennett deMarrais
  • Traditional stories of female students in an alternative school / Linda Steet
  • "Before their time" : social age, sexuality, and school-aged mothers / Nancy Lesko
  • Heterosexism, homophobia, and the culture of schooling / Richard A. Friend. II. The broader context of invisibility. Where have all the children gone? : the transformation of children into dollars in Public law 104-193 / Barbara Finkelstein, Reem Mourad, and Elyssa Doner
  • Speaking of and against youth / Sue Books.