With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, this collection is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation pays tribute to tomboys of the past, present, and (hopefully) future.

With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. This collection examines the tomboy as she appears throughout history, in the arts and in real-life. It also addresses how she has changed over the centuries, adapting to the world around her and breaking new boundaries in new ways (sometimes with a "simple" selfie). While this collection addresses the claim of the tomboy as being antiquated or even "problematic," it more vigorously offers examples of where she is thriving and benefiting from her tomboy identity. Ultimately, this book underscores the tomboy's legacy as well as why she is still relevant, if not needed, today.

PART I: A RETROSPECTIVE: THE TOMBOY IN HISTORY

1. Rise of the Marketplace Tomboy

Renée M. Sentilles

2. The Momboy: Maternal Tomboys on Stage

Lynn Deboeck

PART II: THE WRITTEN WORD: THE TOMBOY IN LITERATURE

3. Queer Epistemologies of the Tomboy in Stacey Waite’s Butch Geography

CE Mackenzie

4. Reclaiming Female Power in Postcolonial Africa: The Tomboy in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions

Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad

5. Tomboy Ethos in Children’s Non-Fiction

Jennifer Harrison

PART III: THE SMALL SCREEN: THE TOMBOY ON TELEVISION

6. “Whoever I Want to Be”: Tomboy and/as Femme Fatale in Marvel’s Agent Carter

Cara McClintock-Walsh

7. Tomboys, Annedroids and the New Normal

Rebecca Feasey

8. Misnomers and Contemporizations: An Examination of the Tomboy Figure in the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things

Erica Joan Dymond

PART IV: THE VIRTUAL WORLD: THE TOMBOY IN VIDEO GAMES AND ON THE INTERNET

9. Beyond Good and Evil … and Gender and Humanism? Exploring Jade as a Posthuman Protagonist

Poppy Wilde

10. How #Tomboy Instagram Reclaims the Tomboy from White, Middle-Class Straight

Women

Holly Wells