Chapter 6 Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics 1
4. Part 1 Clinical Practice
5. Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics 17
6. Chapter 2 “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era 31
7. Chapter 3 Gender and Doctor–Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century 51
8. Chapter 4 Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology 75
9. Chapter 5 Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic 90
10. Chapter 6 Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls 103
11. Part 2 Body Politic
12. Chapter 7 Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine 121
13. Chapter 8 Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment 138
14. Chapter 9 Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s 154
15. Chapter 10 Gender and the “New” Puberty 174
16. Chapter 11 Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women? 190
17. Notes on Contributors 207
18. Index 211