List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender signifiers

Anyway, the point is: the hero’s journey and carrier bag are both about narrative models rather than gendered modes of storytelling, and the rise of the novel was a fall of the hero (whether male or female) from epic demigod figure to boy-with-toy. Or girl-with-toy as the case may be.

Take the concept of “gendering” as an oppressive action. It’s not usually something powerful individuals do knowingly. Instead, it is created by social interactions on all levels, interactions that become ever more complex as further layers of identity are added to the analytical mix. In their massively influential 1987 paper, “Doing Gender”26—the

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- It's difficult to imagine today, but not so long ago plenty of guys would balk at the idea of wearing bulbous sneakers - That's not to say fashion's volte-face toward loudness should be an unequivocal cause for celebration (no one needs to see any more Amiri or Philipp Plein), but for a lot of guys, the "bad taste" movement has let them discover ... See more

The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had described pink as a masculine color, an equivalent to red, which was considered for men but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were inc... See more

For example, while, previously, an advertisement showing a woman using dishwashing detergent might have been seen as reinforcing patriarchal expectations and exploiting women in a material sense, after the applied postmodern turn it would be seen as a way of “gendering” domestic tasks—using discourses to legitimize the idea that washing dishes is p

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