Michelle Ann Abate is an Assistant Professor of English at Hollins University.
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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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Acknowledgements Introduction: From Antebellum Hoyden to Millennial Girl Power; The Unwritten History (and Hidden History) of Tomboyism in the United States 1. The White Tomboy Launches a Gender Backlash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand 2. The Tomboy Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 3. The Tomboy Matures Into the New Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor 4. The Tomboy is Reinvented an the Exercise Enthusiast: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland 5. The Tomboy Becomes the All-Americanizing Girl: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia 6. The Tomboy Shifts From Feminist to Flapper: Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula 7. The Tomboy Turns Freakishly Queer and Queerly Freakish: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding 8. The Tomboy Becomes the "Odd Girl Out": Ann Bannon's Women in the Shadows 9. The Tomboy Returns to Hollywood: Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon Selected Bibliography Works Cited Index Photographs follow page 144
