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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review"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 Intersex *
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Pink and Blue represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful edited volume for feminist educators and researchers." * Gender & Society *
"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."
-- Alicia Smith-Tran * Contemporary Sociology *
"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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics
Aimee Medeiros and Elena Conis
Part 1: Clinical Practice
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics
Aimee Medeiros
Chapter 2: “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era
Jessica Martucci
Chapter 3: Gender and Doctor-Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Hughes Evans
Chapter 4: Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology
Sandra Eder
Chapter 5: Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic
Jules Gill-Peterson
Chapter 6: Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls
Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit
Part 2: Body Politic
Chapter 7: Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine
Elena Conis
Chapter 8: Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment
A.R. Ruis
Chapter 9: Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s
Kathleen E. Bachynski
Chapter 10: Gender and the “New” Puberty
Heather Prescott
Chapter 11: Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women?
Laura Mamo and Ashley Pérez
Notes on Contributors
Index
