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
