 | Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature Subjects: Language & Literature; Literature; Children''s Literature; Women''s Literature; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literature by Geographic Area; From Jo March of Little Women (1868) to Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games (2008), the American tomboy figure has evolved into an icon of modern girlhood and symbol of female empowerment. Battling Girlhood : Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature traces the development of the tomboy figure from its origins in nineteenth-century sentimental novels to twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and film. Kristen B Proehl is Assistant Professor, Department of English, SUNY-The College at Brockport, Fall 2013-present. |
