Pink and Blue : : Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children / / ed. by Elena Conis, Aimee Medeiros, Sandra Eder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bachynski, Kathleen E.,; Conis, Elena,; Eder, Sandra,; Evans, Hughes,; Gill-Peterson, Jules,; Mamo, Laura,; Martucci, Jessica,; Medeiros, Aimee,; Morton, Christine H.,; Prescott, Heather Munro,; Profit, Jochen,; Pérez, Ashley E.,; Ruis, A. R.,; Sigurdson, Krista,
• HerausgeberIn: Conis, Elena,; Eder, Sandra,; Medeiros, Aimee,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.) :; 6 b-w images

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

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