"It's Time to Stop Calling Her a Tomboy." Over and over the same argument was invoked: Using a word with "boy" in it to describe a girl who loves action and adventure is reinforcing gender ...

Judy at 13 years, with her father I quickly came to understand that that tomboy—the gender identity with which I had escaped childhood—was less acceptable in adolescence. Yearly visits to ...

The entry is available here. Accepted by editors. “From Tomboy Gender Role to 'Western' Feminine Lesbianism: Sinophone Queer Women's Transnational Misreadings of The L Word,” in Translating Sexuality: ...