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With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. This collection examines the tomboy as she appears throughout history, in the arts and in real-life. It also addresses how she has changed over the centuries, adapting to the world around her and breaking new boundaries in new ways (sometimes with a "simple" selfie). While this collection addresses the claim of the tomboy as being antiquated or even "problematic," it more vigorously offers examples of where she is thriving and benefiting from her tomboy identity. Ultimately, this book underscores the tomboy's legacy as well as why she is still relevant, if not needed, today.
Contents
PART I: A RETROSPECTIVE: THE TOMBOY IN HISTORY
Rise of the Marketplace Tomboy
Renée M. Sentilles
The Momboy: Maternal Tomboys on Stage
Lynn Deboeck
PART II: THE WRITTEN WORD: THE TOMBOY IN LITERATURE
Queer Epistemologies of the Tomboy in Stacey Waite's Butch Geography
CE Mackenzie
Reclaiming Female Power in Postcolonial Africa: The Tomboy in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Tomboy Ethos in Children's Non-Fiction
Jennifer Harrison
PART III: THE SMALL SCREEN: THE TOMBOY ON TELEVISION
"Whoever I Want to Be": Tomboy and/as Femme Fatale in Marvel's Agent Carter
Cara McClintock-Walsh
Tomboys, Annedroids and the New Normal
Rebecca Feasey
Misnomers and Contemporizations: An Examination of the Tomboy Figure in the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things
Erica Joan Dymond
PART IV: THE VIRTUAL WORLD: THE TOMBOY IN VIDEO GAMES AND ON THE INTERNET
Beyond Good and Evil ... and Gender and Humanism? Exploring Jade as a Posthuman Protagonist
Poppy Wilde
How #Tomboy Instagram Reclaims the Tomboy from White, Middle-Class Straight
Women
Holly Wells
