Ylva Sommerland – författare

The main purpose of this study, The Tomboy in Manga for Teens – kaleidoscopic Bodily Styles (Tecknad tomboy – kalejdoskopiskt kön i manga för tonåringar), has been to discuss gender as made manifest through visible identities in manga for teens. The problem area investigated deals with how visible gender identities are formed through bodily styles and how the tomboy motif in manga materializes the concept queer as a process. The hypothesis put forward is that in manga for teens, visible gender identities can be described as kaleidoscopic, even when recognizing the binary pair of femininity and masculinity as convention suits.