the tomboy project: June 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

metaphorical tomboy study #3- "coming out of the fog"

Natural Selection

Historical representation of people, places and things, can be traced through photographic records. Photography has the capacity to capture and bear witness to real social conditions.

Brend & Hilla Becher Anonymous Sculptures: A Typology of Technical Construction (1972)

Lesley Turnbull Tomboy Project: A Typology of Natural Progression in Girls (2010

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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Monday, June 7, 2010

metaphorical tomboy study #3- "coming out of the fog"

Natural Selection

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