a literary and cultural history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Abate, Michelle Ann
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, seksuele ambivalentie, etniciteit, gender, literatuur, films, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Description of the origins, trajectory and the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. The author focuses on literature including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding: on films and texts like E.D.E.N. Southworth’s novel The Hidden Hand (1859), Cold War lesbian pulp fiction and queer cinema from the 1990s.