Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America

by Jo B. Paoletti

Book Overview

Jo B. Paoletti's journey through the history of children's clothing began when she posed the question, "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue?" To uncover the answer, she looks at advertising, catalogs, dolls, baby books, mommy blogs and discussion forums, and other popular media to examine the surprising shifts in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in American children's clothing. She chronicles the decline of the white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025300117X
• ISBN13: 9780253001177
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"