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 ...

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).

Often, this attraction is expressed in terms of the tomboy’s divergence from conventional femininity (“You’re not like other girls”) and alignment with masculine norms (“It’s just like ...

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 24-year-old girl, who was a "tomboy" as a child until transitioning into a trans-male, says she is reclaiming her femininity after undergoing medical and surgical sex change interventions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Source: By sylvar from Tampa, Florida, United States (I'm not a tomboy — I'm just better than you.) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or ...

“Sophie is a feisty, fun, talkative tomboy,” she wrote, and I was surprised. It was the first time I had heard anyone describe my second daughter that way, and I wondered where my oldest had ...

Nickelodeon is looking to bring more of AwesomenessTV‘s youthful sizzle to its air with a TV movie based on the “Terry the Tomboy” character played by Lia Marie Johnson. Nickelodeon’s deal ...