As Laure adapts to her gambit — teaching herself to spit, going shirtless if necessary, working with, ahem, a clay model for swimming shorts’ sake, and eventually recruiting her 6-year-old ...

Tomboy, a film by director Céline Sciamma, explores just that — a 10-year-old girl’s feelings of confusion and sexual ambiguity in a typically French style.. In Tomboy, a French family with two ...

With swimming out of reach, she turned her attention to pageants.With the support and guidance of her mother, who competed in the 1980 Miss Florida pageant, Raulerson began competing in the Miss ...

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 the ...

Carole Lombard was a tomboy who grew up to earn $2,000,000. As a Hoosier schoolgirl, she could run faster and jump farther than any of her classmates. Known simply as Jane Peters, she came to Los ...

A true tomboy will, like George, totally reject skirts, long hair and any hint of femininity. Some insist on wearing boys’ boxer shorts and swimming trunks.

Laure Héran is a ten-year old Parisian tomboy who tries to fit in with her new gang by pretending to be a boy. Pretending to be 'Michael', she soon attracts the attentions of Lisa (Disson). It's ...

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 comprehensive look ...

Outlook ‘Tomboy’ is anachronistic. But the concept still has something to teach us. These characters still give us room to experiment with the complexities of gender and sexuality.