"And we noticed that the word 'butch' was not being searched for like tomboy. The word 'tomboy' was being searched for like crazy." She added the keyword all over the website, so now HauteButch is ...

The word "tomboy" doesn't get tossed around with regularity any more. Like Leave It To Beaver or four-hour drinking lunches at work, it's got a little bit of the aura of a bygone age about it.

How would you define tomboy ? "The word 'tomboy' has always encapsulated women whose interests were more aligned with those of men. And to a lot of people that's still what it means. But as times ...

When the term “tomboy” first appeared, in the mid-16th century, it actually was a name for male children who were rude and boisterous. But by the 1590s, the word underwent a shift toward its ...

Britney Spears, Charlize Theron, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Keri Russell and Keira Knightley all say they have, or had, a whole lot of tomboy in them. Why 'tomboy' remains a loaded word Skip ...

In fact, there are more than 22,000 19th-century mentions of the word “tomboy” in Newspapers.com’s archives. True, not all of them are positive (and some are about a horse named Tomboy).

Lisa Selin Davis, the author of “Tomboy,” discusses the hyper-gendering of American childhood By Mary Katharine Tramontana — Lisa Selin Davis, the author of “Tomboy,” on the sexism and ...