Contributors
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Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues, including Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: The History of Birth Control in America, revised edition titled The Moral Property of Women; Heroes of Their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence; and Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare. Her last book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, won the Bancroft prize for best book in American history and the Beveridge prize for best book on the history of the Americas. She is now writing a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange.
Deena Haydon is Children’s Human Rights Adviser - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, with Save the Children and the Children’s Law Centre in Northern Ireland. Her earlier work included co-authorship of the book The Illusions of ‘Post-Feminism’. New Women, Old Myths (Taylor and Francis, 1995). She is author of numerous publications about children’s rights, including: “Children’s Rights to Sex and Sexuality Education in The New Handbook of Children’s Rights. Comparative Policy and Practice, ed. B. Franklin (London and New York: Routledge, 2002); “Challenging the criminalisation of children and young people. Securing a right-sbased agenda” with Phil Scraton in Youth Justice. Critical Readings, Eds J. Muncie et al (London: Sage, 2002); Northern Ireland NGO Alternative Report, (Belfast: Save the Children and the Children’s Law Centre, 2008).
Margaret Jacobs is an associate professor of history and the director of Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She has published over a dozen articles and a book, Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934, in 1999, which won two historical prizes. Her new book, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2009. [End Page 485]
Dominique Marshall is Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches the history of families, of welfare and poverty and of international aid. The author of The Social Origins of the Welfare State. Québec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940–1955, (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006), she is currently working on a book on the history of the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations. She is also preparing a study of the 1931 Conference on the African Child.
Jacqueline M. Olich is Associate Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina. She teaches a graduate seminar entitled “Twentieth-Century Childhood in Comparative Perspective” and is currently studying representations of the Slavic world in the Harry Potter series.
Afua Twum-Danso has recently completed her PhD at the Centre of West African Studies, the University of Birmingham (UK). Her publications include: “The Political Child,” in Invisible Stakeholders: The Impact of Children on War, ed. Angela McIntyre (Pretoria: The Institute of Security Studies, 2004); and Africa’s Young Soldiers: The Co-Option of Childhood (Pretoria: Institute of Security Studies, 2003). Currently, she is working on a chapter for a volume on Participation: Theory and Practice to be published by Routledge at the end of 2008 entitled the Construction of Childhood and the Socialization of Children: the Implications for the Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana. In the Autumn she will be taking up her new post as lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood at the University of Sheffield, UK. [End Page 486]
