A01=Renee M. Sentilles
American tomboy culture
American women's cultural history
and the tomboy figure
Author_Renee M. Sentilles
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cultural history of American women
cultural history of tomboys
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gender
gender and empire in American history
gender and family in America
gender in postwar America
gender roles in post-Civil War America
gender-bending childhoods
historical perspectives on tomboys
historical views on gender
history of tomboys
history of women's childhoods
post-Civil War gender roles
post-Civil War women's roles
race
race and gender in childhood
race and gender in tomboy identity
rebellious girlhoods in history
role of tomboys in cultural transformation
tomboy and childhood freedom
tomboy archetype in literature
tomboy behavior
tomboy behavior in history
tomboy childhood experiences
tomboy cultural history
tomboy femininity
tomboy figure and American identity
tomboy figures in American fiction
tomboy girlhood
tomboy girls and societal expectations
tomboy history and American culture
tomboy influence on femininity
tomboy literature
tomboy mothers
tomboy role in gender politics
tomboy transformation
tomboy women in American history
tomboys and gender expectations
tomboys and masculinity
transitional figures in gender history
transitional gender figures
white middle-class tomboys
women and gender
women and gender identity
women in America after the Civil War
women in American literature
women's gender and family dynamics
women's roles in America
women's struggles against gender norms
Product details
- ISBN 9781625343208
- Weight: 392g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A 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 such behavior is atypical. In American Tomboys, Renée M. Sentilles explores how the concept of the tomboy developed in the turbulent years after the Civil War, and she 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 she 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.
Renee M. Sentilles is author of Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity.
