List of tomboys in fiction

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A tomboy is a girl that behaves like a spirited, boisterous boy.[1] A number of fictional characters have been described as having tomboy characteristics.[2][3]


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  1. ^ (1989) Oxford English Dictionary. ISBN 0198611862. “A girl who behaves like a spirited or boisterous boy:a wild romping girl; a hoyden.” 
  2. ^ “I am no lady!”: the tomboy in children's fiction
  3. ^ Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History
  4. ^ Napier, Susan J. (2005). Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 51. 
  5. ^ Philip Herbst. Wimmin, Wimps & Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender, 273. ISBN 1877864803. 
  6. ^ Libby Purves, "Today's tomboys not getting on so famously," Times Educational Supplement 4753 (9/7/2007): 27. Abstract: "The author, a British novelist and broadcaster, comments on social pressures on girls in 21st-century Great Britain. She begins with a reference to a planned play in which author Enid Blyton's Famous Five characters are shown as adults, and she wonders how tomboy George will be portrayed. She states that modern girls are expected to be so many things, including sporty, brave, and beautiful and wonders if idleness and indifference are the few remaining forms of rebellion."
  7. ^ David Rudd, Children's Literature in Education 26.3 (Sep95): 185. Abstract: "Examines the sexism issue in the Famous Five series of children's books by Enid Blyton. Critics' comments on the series; Focus on the tomboy character named George; Characterizations; Gender struggles in the book."
  8. ^ Lindenfeld, Laura. "Women Who Eat Too Much: Femininity and Food in Fried Green Tomatoes", in Avakian, Arlene Voski; Haber, Barbara: From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 221-245. ISBN 1-55849-512-6. 
  9. ^ Richard K. Ashford, "TOMBOYS & SAINTS: Girls' Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century," School Library Journal 26.5 (Jan80): 23. Abstract: "Focuses on literature about American girls in middle 19th century. Social conditions during the middle 19th century; Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott; Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World; Ann Douglas' The Feminization of American Culture."
  10. ^ Love Hina DVD 2: Go West! Review
  11. ^ Beverly Lyon Clark (1996). Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys. Routledge. ISBN 0415928915. “Like Jo, Nan provides a middle ground for diverging tendencies: as a tomboy” 
  12. ^ Hellfire Hotchkiss, Mark Twain, in Satires and Burlesques, University of California, 1967. The character's creator explicitly refers to her as a "tomboy," and this is echoed by the volume's editor. "Hellfire" Hotchkiss was introduced as a female counterpart to Oscar "Thug" Carpenter, whose gentleness makes him seem feminine by the standards of that time and place. Hellfire herself describes their difficulties in life as being due to their "misplaced sexes" (Everett H. Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life, pp. 231-232). See also Linda A. Morris, "The Eloquent Silence in 'Hellfire Hotchkiss", in The Mark Twain Annual 3 (2005), pp. 43–51.
  13. ^ Pamela Hartman (2005), Outspoken Tomboys and Arrogant Women: Four 10th-Grade Girls' Talk about Female Characters in English Class, vol. 14, The Women in Literacy and Life Assembly of The National Council of Teachers of English, <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/WILLA/fall05/hartman.html>