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The Grizzly, September 24, 2020, Simra Mariam, Sam Beckman, Claude Wolfer, Layla Halterman, Shelsea Deravil, Liam Reilly, Kevin Melton, Sean Mcginley
The Grizzly, September 24, 2020, Simra Mariam, Sam Beckman, Claude Wolfer, Layla Halterman, Shelsea Deravil, Liam Reilly, Kevin Melton, Sean Mcginley
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Ursinus Celebrates the Commons Opening • A Not-so-Common Intellectual Experience • Strengthening Your Optimism Muscle • The Fringe Festival 2020 Goes Virtual • Opinion: All Students Should Have the Same CIE Experience; The Case for Pronouns • Pokemon Go Makes a Comeback • The New "Normal" for Ursinus College Athletics
A Posthumanist Pragmatism: Rereading Tomboys, Aaron Martin, Spurthi Gubbala, Marissa J. Huth, Sarah M. Johnson, Amanda Romaya
A Posthumanist Pragmatism: Rereading Tomboys, Aaron Martin, Spurthi Gubbala, Marissa J. Huth, Sarah M. Johnson, Amanda Romaya
Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions
Gender has often dictated the roles and responsibilities that individuals are expected to fulfill. Societies in general still adhere to a strict gender binary system, and have largely been either intolerant of or, at minimum, uncomfortable with those who break from such a system. The tomboy figure has been the recipient of societal judgement for what has been interpreted to be a subversion of and deviance from traditional gender norms, and this has played out in a variety of ways. For instance, literary depictions of the tomboy—as the manifestations of the dominant cultural attitude—have captured both the aversion to as …