TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sentilles,Ren�ee M.
TI  - American tomboys: 1850-1915 
SN  - 9781625343208 (pbk.)
AV  - HQ798 .S444 2018
U1  - 305.23082/0973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Amherst, Boston
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Tomboys
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-49) and index; Introduction -- Tomboys and the new girlhood -- Tomboy heroines in the home -- Tomboy heroines on the manly frontier -- The tomboy and the new woman -- Boyhood for girls -- The American girl -- Tomboys as retrospective -- Coda -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
N2  - A lot of women remember having had tomboy girlhoods. Some recall it as a time of gender-bending freedom and rowdy pleasures. Others feel the word is used to limit girls by suggesting that such behavior is atypical. In American Tomboys, Rene��e M. Sentilles explores how the concept of the tomboy developed in the turbulent years after the Civil War and argues that the tomboy grew into an accepted and even vital transitional figure. In this period, cultural critics, writers, and educators came to imagine that white middle-class tomboys could transform themselves into the vigorous mothers of America's burgeoning empire. In addition to the familiar heroines of literature, Sentilles delves into a wealth of newly uncovered primary sources that manifest tomboys' lived experience and asks critical questions about gender, family, race, and nation. Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, American Tomboys explores the cultural history of girls who, for a time, whistled, got into scrapes, and struggled against convention. -- From back cover
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