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001 2007050234
003 DLC
005 20080725163926.0
008 071218s2008 pauaf b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007050234
015 $aGBA861617$2bnb
016 7 $a014601869$2Uk
020 $a9781592137220 (alk. paper)
020 $a1592137229 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn181599823
035 $a(OCoLC)181599823
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.S46$bA23 2008
082 00 $a813/.3093522$222
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 finally "comes into the light" : transformations to white feminism, the emergence of whiteness studies and the end of racialized white tomboyism.
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.