Pink and Blue
Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children
Aimee Medeiros editor Elena Conis editor Sandra Eder editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:14th May '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£124.00(9781978809888)
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 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 *
"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 *
ISBN: 9781978809840
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
Weight: 340g
238 pages