Tomboy

By Lisa Selin Davis,

Book cover of Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

Book description

Based on the author’s viral New York Times op-ed, this heartfelt book is a celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood.

We are in the middle of a cultural revolution, where the spectrum of gender and sexual identities is seemingly unlimited. So when author and…

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1 author picked Tomboy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This one is for girls who want to know more about tomboys in the here and now. Davis essentially asks “how did we get to this time of transgender and nonbinary identity?” She interrogates the term “tomboy” as a way of understanding how our understanding of gender norms has changed and remained unchanged—at the same time.

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