An ambitious and exciting book that examines representations of what could be considered tomboys, in U.S. fiction and film, since 1859. The scope is impressive: Abate has done a great deal of archival research to unearth the titles she examines and cites many relevant theoretical and critical texts.-Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College

Michelle Ann Abate is an Assistant Professor of English at Hollins University.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Antebellum Hoyden to Millennial Girl Power; The Unwritten History (and Hidden History) of Tomboyism in the United States
1. The White Tomboy Launches a Gender Backlash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand
2. The Tomboy Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
3. The Tomboy Matures Into the New Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor
4. The Tomboy is Reinvented an the Exercise Enthusiast: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland
5. The Tomboy Becomes the All-Americanizing Girl: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia
6. The Tomboy Shifts From Feminist to Flapper: Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula
7. The Tomboy Turns Freakishly Queer and Queerly Freakish: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding
8. The Tomboy Becomes the Odd Girl Out: Ann Bannon's Women in the Shadows
9. The Tomboy Returns to Hollywood: Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon
Selected Bibliography
Works Cited
Index
Photographs follow page 144