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The Twentieth Century Reversal of Pink-Blue Gender Coding: A Scientific Urban Legend?

2012; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 41; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10508-012-0002-z

ISSN

1573-2800

Autores

Marco Del Giudice,

Tópico(s)

Media, Gender, and Advertising

Resumo

Inthescientificliteratureongender, it isusuallytakenforgranted that a remarkable cultural shift took place in the United States duringthefirsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.Inthespanofasingle generation, gender-color associations underwent a sudden reversal:pink—astereotypicallymasculinecoloruntil the1920s—had by the 1950s become associated with girls and femininity while blue had switched from feminine to masculine. The discovery of this‘‘pink-blue reversal’’(henceforth PBR) is usually attributed to Paoletti (1987, 1997, 2012). Here are some typical scholarly accounts of the PBR:

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