One woman wrote in about acting like a boy when she was younger in the hope that it would shield her from sexism. Another proudly noted that she still applies the term “tomboy” to herself as a badge ...

LOS ANGELES — For years, author Lizzie Garrett Mettler considered tomboy a dirty word. “I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid,” she says. “It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress ...

It's an age-old belief in many cultures that feminine people should not inhabit or perform masculinity, citing the gender binary and gender roles for women, and people identifying as such. Women are ...

Watching the simple, beautiful French film “Tomboy” a viewer cannot help but wonder: Would most American directors treat the notion of a 10-year-old girl pretending to be a boy with the same delicacy ...

This may sound surprising to some, but Juno, released in 2008, was probably the first time I saw an unashamed tomboy take center stage on the silver screen. Since watching the movie for the first time ...

It’s hard to believe that Daphne Guinness was ever anything less than glamorous! The eccentric heiress to the Guinness fortune and style icon opens up about her life before she discovered couture and ...

Alicia Keys is now revealing why she embraced a tomboy look in her early days. — -- Alicia Keys is the Grammy Award-winning singer who has been hot on the charts for more than a decade. She’s now ...

Rupert tells Vogue UK, of his first impression, “She’d burnt her lower pelvis area, quite low down. She was bandaging a bad burn there, in her very tight jeans, with a Camel clamped between her teeth.

“Tomboy Style” author Lizzie Garrett Mettler shares her must-haves for spring. They incorporate this season’s trends — like colorful jeans — with classic tomboy staples such as a striped tee. We’ll ...

Nothing could have prevented Patt Joannides from claiming her grandstand seat for the starting flag of the 1973 Indianapolis 500, neither steady rain nor the death of a driver in a practice run two ...

Madison Anastasia "Maddie" Thomas, an 8-year-old second-grader whose battle with cancer was the subject of a Times-Union story in February, has died. She died peacefully, surrounded by family members, ...

The tomboy conjures an image of a girl in overalls and baseball hats, wearing short hair and nondescript shoes. She probably isn’t into Barbie. When the term “tomboy” first appeared, in the mid-16th ...