Tomboys And Tv Tropes, Or How The Theory Of Gender Roles Should Be Read Into As Non- Ideological
Tomboys And Tv Tropes, Or How The Theory Of Gender Roles Should Be Read Into As Non- Ideological

Summary/Abstract: Gender roles theories are very much advanced by radical feminism and by intersectionalism these days, as well as contested by those who have a more traditionalist view on what boys and girls should be like and behave like. While considering the idea of gender roles and education for gender roles a valid field of anthropological and cultural study, the present article comes to contest the relevance of the feminist theory according to which tomboys - girls and women with an inclination to adopt 'manly' attitudes - are, in fact, either transgender or lesbians, and are forced by society to conform. Using tomboy television tropes, which are very diverse and describe a great variety of such characters, the present paper maintains that gender roles and tomboysm should be saved from ideologically biases and given a more humane and culturally relevant meaning. The few examples of tomboys from literature, films and animated films, are used to illustrate this thesis.

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