Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807062111)

Louisa May Alcott's energetic, ambitious, and androgynous Jo March has inspired generations of tomboys. But at the close of Little Women even Jo's valiant tomboy spirit has been subordinated to her role as wife and mother. For Jo's Girls, editor Christian McEwen has assembled a collection of fiction and memoir that looks at what it has really meant to be a tomboy from the nineteenth century to the present-and at what the refusal to turn into a "young lady" has implied.

Contributors include: Toni Cade Bambara, Willa Cather, Sandra Cisneros, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Alexis De Veaux, Annie Dillard, Nadezhda Durova, Leslie Feinberg, Emily Hiestand, Maria Hinojosa, Teresa Jordan, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne LaBastille, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bia Lowe, Carson McCullers, Susan Moon, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rose Tremain, Frances Willard, Opal Whiteley, Virginia Woolf

Author: Christian McEwen
ISBN-10: 0807062111
ISBN-13: 9780807062111
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1997
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.01w x 0.96d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/28/1997 pg. 58
Library Journal 06/01/1997 pg. 98
Booklist 06/01/1997 pg. 1646
School Library Journal 03/01/1998 pg. 248