Tomboys!

Tales of Dyke Derring-Do

Plot

Collection of stories, essays and photographs examining and celebrating tomboyhood and its meaning for those tomboys who grew up to be lesbians. Readers will delight in both the similarities and varieties of experience revealed in this tales told with humour, attitude, nostalgia, longing and above all love.

Contents:
Little girl / Brenda Brooks --
Button nose / Linda Bourke --
Bloody noses / Patricia A. Gozemba --
Evolution of a tomboy / Hilary Mullins --
The importance of horses / Pat Pomerleau-Chávez --
One of the girls / Susan Fox Rogers --
New Year's resolution / Dianne Reum --
Easy bake / Tracy Alderman --
A player / Kate Stoll --
Girl / Catherine Houser --
Boy / Chaia Heller --
Throwing like a girl --
Getting out / Louise A. Blum --
In some shining moments / Kris A. Billhards --
The other kind / Kanani L. Kauka --
Winning / Lynne Yamaguchi --
Late bloomer / S. Jayne Melton --
At nine / Mia Levesque --
The long road back to ten, or, Reclaiming my inner tomboy / Jayne Relaford Brown --
The year I was ten / Ann L. McClintock --
Dear Grandma and Grandpa / Dianne Reum --
Skirmished in the tomboy wars / Barb Netter --
A day in the life of the King's Musketeers / Rhomylly B. Forbes --
Air displacement / Franci McMahon --
Stingrays / Giovanna (Janet) Capone --
Confessions of an unrepentant tomboy / Marianne Dresser --
A tale of two brothers / Jeanne Córdova --
Alan and me / Sharon Lim-Hing --
Marta's magic / Sally Sotomayor --
No fear / Lucy Jane Bledsoe --
Playing house / Karol D. Lightner --
There's no girl in tomboy / Denise Carmen Paquin --
The power of prayer / Alison Bechdel --
Cowboy heaven / Marlene H. Lipinski --
Happy Halloween / Dianne Reum --
What good is a doll if her clothes don't come off? / Elena Sherman --
Values clarification / Mariah Burton Nelson --
Tomboy groupie / Allison Faust --
Cerisy's sphinx / Brenda Brooks --
Red delicious / Lynne Yamaguchi --
Summer showdown / Pat Griffin.