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Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History Kindle Edition

by Michelle Ann Abate (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, 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. 


Abate focuses on literature including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding and films such as Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes. She also draws onlesser-known texts like E.D.E.N. Southworth's once wildly popular 1859 novel The Hidden Hand, Cold War lesbian pulp fiction, and New Queer Cinema from the 1990s.


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. Abate’s insightful analysis provides useful, thought-provoking connections between different literary works and eras. The result demystifies this cultural phenomenon and challenges readers to consider tomboys in a whole new light.

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    338 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Temple University Press
  4. Publication date
    June 28, 2008
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“An ambitious and exciting book that examines representations of what could be considered tomboys, in U.S. fiction and film, since 1859. The scope is impressive: Abate has done a great deal of archival research to unearth the titles she examines and cites many relevant theoretical and critical texts.”—Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College

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Michelle Ann Abate is an Assistant Professor of English at Hollins University.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001WAKAD4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Temple University Press; Illustrated edition (June 28, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
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