I used to chase every spark of attitude I could find on TV; tomboy heroines became my compass. They swing swords, fix engines ...

In first grade she announced she was a “tomboy.” Davis did her best to support her daughter, letting her cross gender barriers despite occasionally feeling uncomfortable. Learning how to talk ...

But given that the word itself already gender-bends, perhaps the best future for the tomboy is as a gender-neutral version of its 16th-century source: a name for children of all sexes and gender ...

The best gender-atypical predictors of female homosexuality are cross-dressing and having a cross-gender reputation as a tomboy. However, even here the power of these two to distinguish sexual ...

Lisa Selin Davis, the author of “Tomboy,” discusses the hyper-gendering ... enfeebled health and restricted physical education could bring out the best in girls if those same things were ...