Tomboy: Girls will be boys ... Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh Pitt-Jolie, who regularly steps out in fedoras, braces and button-up shirts, has been singled out by the media for her tomboy style.

TOMBOY: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare To Be Different Courtesy of Hachette Books There has been, over the last 180 years or so, since it was first applied to young girls in a ...

The tomboy conjures an image of a girl in overalls and baseball hats, wearing short hair and nondescript shoes. She probably isn’t into Barbie. When the term “tomboy” first appeared, in the ...

This hits home for me. As someone who grew up preferring jeans instead of dresses, playing ball instead of jumping rope, and ...

“Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different” by Lisa Selin Davis not only explores how tomboys fit into our understanding of gender identity and expression but ...

And it is: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "tomboy" appears in 1553, applying not to girls but – rather affectionately – to bad boys prone to "whiskying." ...