Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...

My mother loved pink. Despite my protests, she decorated my bedroom in pink—with a pink eyelet bedspread, too fragile to lie down on to read a book, a pink electric blanket, and a pink shade on the ...