Pink and blue gender, culture, and the health of children / edited by Elena Conis, Sandra Eder, and Aimee Medeiros.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.

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