Tomboys : A Literary and Cultural History

English

ISBN: 1592137237

EAN: 9781592137237

Category: Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism/Literary Criticism / American / General/Literary Criticism / General/

Publisher: Temple University Press

Release Date: 10/31/2008

Synopsis: Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the girl power movement of the 1990s,Tomboysis 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 includingLittle Womenand films such asPaper MoonandFried Green Tomatoes. She also draws on lesser-known texts like E.D.E.N. Southworths once wildly popular 1859 novelThe Hidden Hand, Cold War lesbian pulp fiction, and New Queer Cinema from the 1990s.

Tomboys : A Literary and Cultural History

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Pages: 338