Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / Michelle Ann Abate.
Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / Michelle Ann Abate.
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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N813.30935/1
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English
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xxx, 300 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: From antebellum hoyden to millennial girl power : the unwritten history (and hidden history) of tomboyism as in the United States -- The white tomboy launches a gender backlash : E.D.E.N. Southworth's The hidden hand -- The tomboy becomes a cultural phenomenon : Louisa May Alcott's Lit...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
2008.
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Summary
"Starting with the figure of a bold, boisterous girl in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with the "girl power" movement of the 1990s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations tha...
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Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / Michelle Ann Abate.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-280) and index.
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N813.30935/1
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74VM4KEGl33l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4KEGl33l
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ISBN
9781592137220 (alk. paper)
1592137229 (alk. paper)
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813.3093522
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991001376109702626
