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Volume 09 - Number 1 - June 2002,
Pages: 1 - 59
Section: CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN THE 21ST CENTURY SPECIAL ISSUE
Brisson, U. (2002). Tomboy [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 9(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.70763/47e51e9d11cf800ff08674dbb68a48ab
Tomboy (poem)
Keywords: childhood, gender roles, poem, psychohistory, tomboy
Up … Up. One more branch.
Look! I can do it too and peek at the sky.
Go get him. Punch him!
Show them, I’m no sissy. No time to cry.
Run! Go get the ball.
Yeah, I’m on the boy’s team
Where courage rises tall.
Kisses, hugs? No way, I toughen myself
Declining gifts of affection.
Honor and pride gild the deeds.
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Courage and denial is all that it takes.
Grown-up voices speak ringing with hope.
Come on, go play with the girls! Play rope!
They are boring.
Play with your dolls, then.
Dress, undress them. What’s next?
Help your mother doing the dishes.
It’s not my turn, challenging parental
wishes.
Your brothers refuse. Someone has to do
it …
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Authors:
Ulrike Brisson
Ulrike Brisson, PhD, is Instructor for German Language and Literature at the Goethe Institute in Boston. Her research focuses on 19th-century European women’s travel writings. The author reports that the “photo depicts me at the height of my tomboy phase. The poem gives expression to how my free spirit eventually became confined by feminine socialization.” Dr. Brisson may be contacted at <>.
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