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100 1 $aAbate, Michelle Ann,$d1975-
245 10 $aTomboys :$ba literary and cultural history /$cMichelle Ann Abate.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$c2008.
300 $axxx, 300 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-280) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: From antebellum hoyden to millennial girl power : the unwritten history (and hidden history) of tomboyism as in the United States -- The white tomboy launches a gender backlash : E.D.E.N. Southworth's The hidden hand -- The tomboy becomes a cultural phenomenon : Louisa May Alcott's Little women -- The tomboy matures into the new woman : Sarah Orne Jewett's A country doctor -- The tomboy is reinvented as the exercise enthusiast : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland -- The tomboy becomes the all-Americanizing girl : Willa Cather's O pioneers! and My Antonia -- The tomboy shifts from feminist to flapper : Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula -- The tomboy turns freakishly queer and queerly freakish : Carson McCullers's The member of the wedding -- The tomboy becomes the "odd girl out" : Ann Bannon's Women in the shadows -- The tomboy returns to Hollywood : Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper moon -- Epilogue: The tomboy "comes into the light" : transformations to white feminism, the emergence of whiteness studies and the end of racialized white tomboyism.
520 1 $a"Starting with the figure of a bold, boisterous girl in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with the 'girl power' movement of the 1990s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. Tomboys also explores the gender and sexual dynamics of tomboyism and offers intriguing discussions of race and ethnicity's role in the construction of the enduring cultural archetype"--Jacket.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSex role in literature.
650 0 $aGirls in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aGirls in motion pictures.
650 0 $aWomen in motion pictures.
650 0 $aSex role in motion pictures.
650 0 $aTomboys in literature.
650 0 $aTomboys in motion pictures.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aAbate, Michelle Ann, 1975-$tTomboys.$dPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2008$w(OCoLC)763000916
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