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Pink and Blue
Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children
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2021
About this book
In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children’s health throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the U.S. since the specialty’s inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender—often in concert with class and race—as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history.
Author / Editor information
ELENA C. CONIS, a historian specializing in the history of public health, medicine, and the public understanding of science, is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization.
SANDRA EDER is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in medicine and science, clinical practices and patient records, and the science of happiness. She is currently writing a book on the emergence of the sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth century American medicine. She has published in Gender & History, Endeavour, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
AIMEE MEDEIROS is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Heightened Expectations: The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America. She specializes in the history of pediatrics, gender studies, and science and technology studies.
SANDRA EDER is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in medicine and science, clinical practices and patient records, and the science of happiness. She is currently writing a book on the emergence of the sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth century American medicine. She has published in Gender & History, Endeavour, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
AIMEE MEDEIROS is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Heightened Expectations: The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America. She specializes in the history of pediatrics, gender studies, and science and technology studies.
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"Eder and Medeiros argue that contemporary understandings of gender would not exist in their current arrangement without the medical institution, and the taken-for-granted aspects of medicine we see today are null without the social construction of the gender binary. This book is an in-depth, judiciously executed dissection of the gendered history of pediatrics."
"Exner is a subtle and convincing commentator. Better still, he is capable of sifting through a complex visual record with an eye towards salient detail. The result is a watershed contribution to comics studies that is mandatory reading for scholars interested in manga and its history."
— Sam Cowing, International Journal of Comic Art"This thoughtful and engaging anthology fits together powerfully, each article building from the previous one and complementing each other chronologically and thematically."
— Elizabeth Reis, author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of IntersexTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics
1 - Part 1 Clinical Practice
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Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics
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Chapter 2 “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era
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Chapter 3 Gender and Doctor–Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Chapter 4 Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology
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Chapter 5 Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic
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Chapter 6 Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls
103 - Part 2 Body Politic
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Chapter 7 Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine
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Chapter 8 Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment
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Chapter 9 Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s
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Chapter 10 Gender and the “New” Puberty
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Chapter 11 Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women?
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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August 5, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781978809871
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eBook ISBN:
9781978809871
Keywords for this book
health; medicine; newborns; public health; babies; blankets; baby blankets; swaddles; sex-specific nutrition plans; nutrition plans; children; gender roles; gender; pediatric care; U.S.; United States; race; class; medical care; pediatrics; pediatric transgender medicine; HPV; neonatal intensive care; NICU; Doctor-Parent Communication; down syndrome; Mid-Twentieth Century; boys; girls; raising children; mom; dad; mother; father; family; childhood; 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology; Pediatric Endocrinology; Body Politic; vaccine; childhood vaccine; Masculinity; puberty; Competitive Youth Sports; weight; height; HPV Vaccination; birth; infant; pregnancy
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
