| Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life Contributor(s): McEwen, Christian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807062111 ISBN-13: 9780807062111 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1997 Annotation: From her classic novel LITTLE WOMEN, Louisa May Alcott's energetic and androgynous character Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys, but eventually Jo submitted to the role of wife and mother. Here an assortment of women writers push the tomboy narrative beyond the boundaries of children's literature to reveal the determined tomboy spirit and the variety of paths taken by real life tomboys as they navigate adolescence and adulthood. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 810.803 |
| LCCN: 96047124 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (1.00 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Louisa May Alcott's energetic, ambitious, and androgynous Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys. But at the close of Little Women even Jo's valiant tomboy spirit has been subordinated to her role as wife and mother. For Jo's Girls, editor Christian McEwen has assembled a collection of fiction and memoir that looks at what it has really meant to be a tomboy from the nineteenth century to the present-and at what the refusal to turn into a young lady has implied. Contributors include: Toni Cade Bambara, Willa Cather, Sandra Cisneros, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Alexis De Veaux, Annie Dillard, Nadezhda Durova, Leslie Feinberg, Emily Hiestand, Maria Hinojosa, Teresa Jordan, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne LaBastille, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bia Lowe, Carson McCullers, Susan Moon, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rose Tremain, Frances Willard, Opal Whiteley, Virginia Woolf |