Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the Classroom - Paperback

by Elizabeth Meyer (Other), Karleen Pendleton Jiménez (Author)

Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is a study that brings together gender stories from approximately 600 children and youth. Set in both urban and rural contexts, these young people show how their schools and communities respond to their bodies, passions, and imaginations.

Author Biography

Karleen Pendleton Jim?nez is a writer and Associate Professor of Education at Trent University. She publishes academic and creative works on gender, lesbian desire, learning, and Chicana/Latina experience. She wrote Are You
a Boy or a Girl? (Lambda Literary Finalist) and the award-winning cartoon Tomboy.