1st Edition
Battling Girlhood Sympathy, Social Justice, and the Tomboy Figure in American Literature
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tomboys in Rag Alley: Understanding Cap Black and the Sentimental Tradition
2 Teaching Jo: Philanthropy, Education, and the Tomboy Trajectory in Louisa May Alcott’s Trilogy
3 Tomboys on the Prairie: Violence, Discipline, and Community in the Little House Series
4 Queer Sentiments: Tomboyism and Familial Belonging in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding
5 Scout as Social Critic: Sympathetic Alliances in To Kill a Mockingbird
6 Beasts of the Southern Wild: Queer Childhood, Race, and the Dystopian South
Coda
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Kristen Proehl is an assistant professor of English at SUNY-Brockport, where she teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. Her work has appeared in Jeunesse, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, and several essay collections. She is currently working on a second book project on queer friendship in adolescent literature.
