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020			_a9781625343208 (pbk.)
020			_a9781625343192 (hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aHQ798 _b.S444 2018
082	0	0	_a305.23082/0973 _223
100	1		_aSentilles, Ren�ee M.,
245	1	0	_aAmerican tomboys : _b1850-1915 / _cRenee M. Sentilles.
264		1	_aAmherst ; _aBoston : _bUniversity of Massachusetts Press, _c[2018]
300			_axviii, 258 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-49) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
520			_aA 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
650		0	_aTomboys _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aTomboys _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
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