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 ...

One of the most famous tomboy images is a 1981 ad of a girl in a striped T-shirt holding a Lego creation. What she’s wearing in the ad is her own outfit. Image.

The centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification is a timely reminder of an overlooked cohort who helped steer the women’s suffrage movement, says Lisa Selin Davis: 19th-century tomboys ...

The trope of tomboy-transformed-into-pretty-girl was a staple of '90s comedies. We often like to see the tomboy feminized, flattened out, emotionally vulnerable, and generally made "acceptable".

Falling somewhere between 1997’s “Ma Vie en Rose” and this winter’s “Albert Nobbs” is “Tomboy,” the assured second feature from writer/director Celine Sciamma.

Imagine "Boys Don't Cry" with 10-year-olds. In "Tomboy," a girl uses the opportunity of her family's recent move to reinvent herself as a boy to her new group of friends.

As part of InStyle's How I Get Dressed series, actress, producer, author, and entrepreneur Tia Mowry talks about her style, motherhood, and entering her feminine girl era.