Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature
Author
Kristen B. Proehl
Content
x + 163 pp.
Publication date
2018
Publisher
New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, College of William and Mary
Description
Covers the tomboy figure from the 19th through the 21st centuries and focuses on The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southward, the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, The Member of the Wedding by Carsons McCullers, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Proehl, Kristen B. Battling Girlhood: Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed June 18, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1513.
