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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"tomboy"”.
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The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman
<p><em>The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman</em> is an analysis of the adolescent, specifically, of the young tomboy characters central to three Bildungsroman texts set in the American South during the twentieth century: Carson McCullers' <em>The …
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Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
… stereotypes in her determination to remain a tomboy. Scout interacts with five parental characters (Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley), who offer models for Scout's behaviors. Though primarily unconventional in terms of gender, these parental figures fluctuate …
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Voices of Midlife Tomboys: A Narrative Study
… have concentrated on the cultural experiences of tomboy women. Tomboys have been defined as cultural rebels for over six centuries, yet their personal stories have not been studied to identify their patterns of acceptance or resistance to social restrictions. The purpose of this study was to …
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War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
… the war (from angelic nurses to flirtatious tomboy recruits) as established in the poster art, revealing a gendered cultural code. By purchasing sheet music and carrying it into their homes, American citizens literally bought into the war propaganda, heeding the siren call of the female …
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
… From America, Mary Marvel, Miss America, Tomboy and Supergirl, and from the UK, The Silent Three, Starr of Wonderland, the Cat, Valda and the Supercats.<br/><br/>The aim of this thesis is to provide a theory of the super-girl that positions her within a framework of whiteness, imperialism …
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Exploring discourses of masculinity within women track athletes' lives in South Africa
… muscularity as a premise of athleticism, ‘tomboyism' and gender fluidities, as well as the policing and disciplining of women athletes' bodies in accordance with gender ideals. Nonetheless, as it stands, literature on women's masculinities within sports in South African contexts, along with …
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Lesbian adolescents' narratives of identity : a participatory photovoice project
… Five main narrative themes emerged: Narrating 'tomboy' childhoods; Clothing as a symbol of identity; Negotiating butch identity; Constructions of safety, violence, and community; and finally Alienation and finding affirming spaces. Recommendations and implications of the findings are discussed. …
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Relationality and Opacity: Approaching Trans in Cinema
… of trans children to readings of three films: Tomboy (Céline Sciamma), Little Girl (Lifshitz) and She Male Snails (Ester Martin Bergsmark), asking how trans children are alienated from their agency and instrumentalized as figures for development, plasticity, innocence, and futurity. I consider, …