American tomboys, 1850-1915 / Renée M. Sentilles.
American tomboys, 1850-1915 Ren�ee M. Sentilles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sentilles, Renée M., author.

Series:

Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tomboys--United States--History--19th century.

Tomboys.

Tomboys--United States--History--20th century.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

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 that 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 argues that the tomboy developed in the turbulent years after the Civil War and 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 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. -- From back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Tomboys and the new girlhood

Tomboy heroines in the home

Tomboy heroines on the manly frontier

The tomboy and the new woman

Boyhood for girls

The American girl

Tomboys as retrospective

Coda

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index.

ISBN:

9781625343208

1625343205

9781625343192

1625343191

OCLC:

1015259191