Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

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. Introduction: Coming of age together : gender and pediatrics / Aimee Medeiros -- A tale of two charts : the history of gendering sex-specific growth assessment in children's health / Aimee Medeiros -- "A habit that worries me very much" : raising good boys and girls in the postwar era / Jessica Martucci -- Gender and doctor-parent communication about Down Syndrome in the mid-twentieth century / Hughes Evans -- Making children into boys and girls : gender role in 1950s pediatric endocrinology / Sandra Eder -- Depathologizing trans childhood : the role of history in the clinic / Jules Gill-Peterson -- Race and gender in the NICU : wimpy white boys and strong black girls / Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit -- Masculinity and the case for a childhood vaccine / Elena Conis -- Weight, height, and the gendering of nutritional assessment / A.R. Ruis -- Competitive youth sports, pediatricians, and gender in the 1950s / Kathleen Bachynski -- Gender and the "new" puberty / Heather Prescott -- Gender and HPV vaccination : responsible boyhood or responsible girls and women? / Laura Mamo and Ashley Pérez "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. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more"-- Provided by publisher