the tomboy project: Humility

Friday, July 10, 2009

Humility

takes away the pressure

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laurenJuly 12, 2009 at 1:30 AM
congrats on the opening! i just read about it. on eddy's blog, mind you - you gotta send them invites out far and wide so other fans can come along, you know :D

lookin' forward to seeing it.
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lesley turnbullJuly 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM
thanks lauren- show on til 7th, hope you get a chance to see it, would greatly appreciate your feedback.
L.
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Is there ‘a’ gender which persons are said to have, or is it an essential attribute that a person is said to be, as implied in the question: ‘What gender are you?’

Judith Butler

Consider the Tomboy - independent, adventurous, outdoors, free - pertaining to elements of social surprise. Climbing trees and cutting up worms might be the sort of stuff a girl who wouldn’t be seen dead playing with dolls gets up to, but does this render her a Tomboy? Furthermore, what clues contribute to our impression of a girl who is a Tomboy, when not observed outdoors roughing it up and behaving akin to a ‘rambunctious boy’ – a Hoyden?[1]

Lesley Turnbull

[1] The concept of Tomboy made its debut during the mid-nineteenth century; it supplanted the English term, Hoyden. For more information regarding the etymology of Hoyden and Tomboy concept refer to Abate, A M, Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History, Temple Press 2008, Philadelphia.

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