Pink and Blue

ELENA C. CONIS, a historian specializing in the history of public health, medicine, and the public understanding of science, is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization.  SANDRA EDER is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in medicine and science, clinical practices and patient records, and the science of happiness. She is currently writing a book on the emergence of the sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth century American medicine. She has published in Gender & History, Endeavour, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.  AIMEE MEDEIROS is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Heightened Expectations: The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America. She specializes in the history of pediatrics, gender studies, and science and technology studies.

"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"Pink and Blue represents a splendid contribution to sociological literature as well as a useful edited volume for feminist educators and researchers."— Gender & Society"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"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

• Introduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and PediatricsAimee Medeiros and Elena ConisPart 1: Clinical PracticeChapter 1: A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in PediatricsAimee MedeirosChapter 2: "A Habit That Worries Me Very Much": Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar EraJessica MartucciChapter 3: Gender and Doctor-Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth CenturyHughes EvansChapter 4: Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric EndocrinologySandra EderChapter 5: Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the ClinicJules Gill-PetersonChapter 6: Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black GirlsChristine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen ProfitPart 2: Body PoliticChapter 7: Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood VaccineElena ConisChapter 8: Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional AssessmentA.R. RuisChapter 9: Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950sKathleen E. BachynskiChapter 10: Gender and the "New" PubertyHeather PrescottChapter 11: Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women?Laura Mamo and Ashley PérezNotes on ContributorsIndex