{"id":53936,"date":"2013-03-04T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=53936"},"modified":"2013-10-31T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T09:28:19","slug":"urbanization-and-the-baby-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/03\/04\/urbanization-and-the-baby-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanization and the &#8220;Baby Cage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality by (Interior) Design<\/a>, a blog by sociologist Tristan Bridges, turned one-year-old last month and it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. \u00a0In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/21\/on-the-social-construction-of-childhood-making-space-for-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, Bridges featured a product that reminds us all why history is awesome: the &#8220;portable baby cage&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/110.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-53937\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/110.png\" width=\"510\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/110.png 637w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/110-500x240.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-53938\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/2.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/2-500x365.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I discussed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/15\/before-love-puritan-beliefs-about-marriage-and-procreation\/\">previous post<\/a>, with industrialization came cities and with cities came crowded, cramped living quarters. \u00a0The baby cage kept infants out of harm&#8217;s way and gave the family a bit more space. \u00a0As Bridges discusses, it also coincided with the idea that babies needed a lot of fresh air to be healthy. \u00a0The baby cage seemed like the perfect solution.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inequality by (Interior) Design, a blog by sociologist Tristan Bridges, turned one-year-old last month and it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. \u00a0In a recent post, Bridges featured a product that reminds us all why history is awesome: the &#8220;portable baby cage&#8221;: As I discussed in a previous post, with industrialization came cities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,252,253,341,290,23705],"class_list":["post-53936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-healthmedicine","tag-history","tag-ruralurban","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54182,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53936\/revisions\/54182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}