The tomboy conjures an image of a girl in overalls and baseball hats, wearing short hair and nondescript shoes. She probably isn’t into Barbie. When the term “tomboy” first appeared ...

By Lisa Damour TOMBOY The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different By Lisa Selin Davis In “Tomboy,” the author Lisa Selin Davis leverages a familiar term to take a ...

In fact, there are more than 22,000 19th-century mentions of the word “tomboy” in Newspapers.com’s archives. True, not all of them are positive (and some are about a horse named Tomboy).

Another proudly noted that she still applies the term “tomboy” to herself as a badge of honor. A third explained that she refuses to use it because there is nothing boylike about being active ...

A tender portrait of a golden youthful summer spent exploring gender, "Tomboy" is the perfect balm to the recent attacks on trans kids. A lot has happened in the world since Texas governor Greg ...

Impact: The Berlinale discovery has been winning awards for her gender-bending role in “Tomboy.” Imagine “Boys Don’t Cry” with 10-year-olds. In “Tomboy,” a girl uses her family’s ...

She looks strong and fearless, words that could apply to most photos included in the new coffee-table book Tomboy Style. Author and blogger Lizzie Garrett Mettler divided her collection of chic ...

How would you define tomboy ? "The word 'tomboy' has always encapsulated women whose interests were more aligned with those of men. And to a lot of people that's still what it means. But as times ...