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Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life
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...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
June 30th 1997
by Beacon Press
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My review: I spent time with what I liked, skimmed what I didn't, skipped a few excerpted novels which are on my reading list already. Biggest treasure gleaned: Exposure to the world of the old-fashioned tomboy diary. I'm talking 16, 17, 18 hundreds! Amazing. Now that I've read excerpts, I'm on a hunt for the full effect.
I haven't ever written about myself as a tomboy in childhood but that is DEFINITELY what I was, how I thought of myself, how I defined myself in the world, the standard of compa...more
I haven't ever written about myself as a tomboy in childhood but that is DEFINITELY what I was, how I thought of myself, how I defined myself in the world, the standard of compa...more
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Jo’s girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life is a collection of true adventure stories and short fiction involving strong and rebellious women. Many of the authors are well-known writers such as Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Annie Dillard, and Toni Morrison. This is a collection that one might find on the bedside table of Lisbeth Salander.
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