03/02/2015 - An Introduction to Female Masculinity

Adra Maner

Women’s Studies

03/02/2015

An Introduction to Female Masculinity.

I found this article very interesting and I identified very much with the beginning of the article about Tomboyism which is what i’m going to focus on in my  review because growing up in rural east tennessee I saw a lot of this.

Growing up the same as boys at times but on sundays being forced into dresses and not allowed to play in a way we usually would. We were taught that it was okay to participate in masculine activities such as hunting, horseback riding, and farm work up until a certain point  and even if you only participated in such activities to the correct point it was still best if you would wear pink while doing so.

I felt a lot of times like southern women are expected to know the same about subjects such as hunting, football, and farming but are only allowed to participate in theses activities in the periphery most of the time after the days of early teenagehood and childhood. Your fathers are expected to teach you about these things and then you are expected to be an outside participant for the rest of your life.