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'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl Jun 2019

'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article explores the tomboy trope in film and literature and the "taming" that characterizes it, framing both in relation to contemporary debates about gender and sexual identity as well as cultural anxieties around queer, trans, and nonbinary identity. Examining texts from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to the 1980 film Little Darlings, the article argues that even while the term tomboy may be obsolete, tomboy narratives document processes of rebellion that hold continuing value.


Queer Tastes: An Exploration Of Food And Sexuality In Southern Lesbian Literature, Jacqueline Kristine Lawrence May 2014

Queer Tastes: An Exploration Of Food And Sexuality In Southern Lesbian Literature, Jacqueline Kristine Lawrence

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Southern identities are undoubtedly influenced by the region's foodways. However, the South tends to neglect and even to negate certain peoples and their identities. Women, especially lesbians, are often silenced within southern literature. Where Tennessee Williams used literature to bridge gaps between gay men and the South, southern lesbian literature severely lacks a traceable history of such connections. The principal objective of this thesis is to explore the ways in which southern lesbians manipulate food metaphors to describe their sexual desires and identities. This thesis only begins to lay out a history of southern lesbian literature as many lesbian writers …


Elizabeth Bishop And Her Women:Countering Loss, Love, And Language Through Bishop's Homosocial Continuum, Donna Rogers Jan 2008

Elizabeth Bishop And Her Women:Countering Loss, Love, And Language Through Bishop's Homosocial Continuum, Donna Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop's seemingly understated and yet nuanced poetry with a specific focus on loss, love, and language through domesticity to create a poetic home. In this sense, home offers security for a displaced orphan and lesbian, moving from filial to amorous love, as well as the literary home for a poet who struggled for critical recognition. Further, juxtaposing the familiar with the strange, Bishop situates her speaker in a construction of artificial and natural boundaries that break down across her topography and represent loss through the multiple female figures that permeate her poems to convey the uncertainty …


Community Pride Reporter, 08/1999, Community Pride Reporter Aug 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 08/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1999, Community Pride Reporter May 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1999, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 02/1999, Community Pride Reporter Feb 1999

Community Pride Reporter, 02/1999, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1998, Community Pride Reporter Nov 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1998, Community Pride Reporter Sep 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 09/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 08/1998, Community Pride Reporter Aug 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 08/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1998, Community Pride Reporter Jul 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 07/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1998, Community Pride Reporter May 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1998, Community Pride Reporter May 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1998, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998b, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1998b, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 01/1998, Community Pride Reporter Jan 1998

Community Pride Reporter, 01/1998, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter Nov 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 11/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter Oct 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 10/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter Sep 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 09/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter Jul 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 07/1997 (Summer), Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter Jun 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 06/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter May 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 05/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter Apr 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 04/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter Mar 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 03/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter Feb 1997

Community Pride Reporter, 02/1997, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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Sex/Textual Conflicts In The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's Doubling Negatives, Renée C. Hoogland Jan 1997

Sex/Textual Conflicts In The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's Doubling Negatives, Renée C. Hoogland

English Faculty Research Publications

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Community Pride Reporter, 12/1996, Community Pride Reporter Dec 1996

Community Pride Reporter, 12/1996, Community Pride Reporter

Community Pride Reporter (1993-1999)

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