Pink and blue : gender, culture, and the health of children

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    • Conis, Elena
    • Eder, Sandra
    • Medeiros, Aimee

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Pink and blue : gender, culture, and the health of children

edited by Elena Conis, Sandra Eder, and Aimee Medeiros

(Critical issues in health and medicine)

Rutgers University Press, c2021

  • : pbk

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Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 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 Perez Notes on Contributors Index

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