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Have you ever been told that you’re too girlish or too boyish? We are all potential targets of the gender police, some more so than others. And how did you respond? Did you hide or change or rebel or hurt or gleefully celebrate your style? Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is a study that brings together gender stories from approximately 600 children and youth. Set in both urban and rural contexts, these young people show how their schools and communities respond to their bodies, passions, and imaginations. As one 13-year-old student expresses, «My flowered jeans make me feel happy because they represent the sort of feminine side to me and at the same time show my masculine side. They also make me feel like I’m a part of a large force that stands up to bullying and criticism, to express themselves and to show the world that our lives have meaning.» In this book, student writings are framed by teaching strategies and gender theory, featuring themes of sports, film, media, landscape, joyfulness, and gender creativity. The research will be of great interest to university students in the fields of education, gender, sexuality and women’s studies, sociology, social work, psychology, counseling, and child development. This book is ideal for teachers, professors, parents, and community members who hope to create accepting environments for gender diversity.

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Karleen Pendleton Jimenez draws out the words of young people, offering them space to define gender on their own terms. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is an important, exciting, and accessible contribution to the study of gender diversity within social justice education. (Tara Goldstein, Author of Zero Tolerance and Other Plays: Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in School) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's research blows the doors off of the traditional gender stereotypes in rural Ontario, and by extension, in North America. Through giving air to student voice, educators are reminded that through our words, actions, and learning activities, we can either allow those voices to resound from the treetops or quash them. How often do we create opportunities in our classrooms or public spaces to showcase student work to embrace alternative expressions of gender? Pendleton Jimenez's research provides us with the answer: not nearly often enough. As educators, we need to ask ourselves why not and engage in conversations with our colleagues and community members on how to present both traditional and creative gender expression as valid and valued. (Mandi Kofira, Elementary FSL (French as a Second Language) Teacher) This book is filled with invaluable glimpses of how this upcoming generation experiences and imagines gender. Nothing simple here! From the young people's own words and from the theoretical sections we begin to see gender as neither binary nor even on a spectrum but as the spectacular constellation it always was. (Hershel Russell, MEd., R.P., Psychotherapist, Educator, Consultant) In an innovative centering of children's stories and experiences with gender, Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's important study of over 600 elementary schoolchildren pushes our thinking about schools and the pedagogies of surveillance that discipline young people into heteronormative subjects. This book will be helpful for teachers, researchers, and administrators to rethink the role that schools play in the everyday regulation of gender. (Cindy Cruz, Associate Professor of Education, University of California Santa Cruz) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez is one of those rare teachers willing to make themselves vulnerable in order to foster learning among students. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes ranges from theoretical insights to practical lesson plans, and is rooted in a sense of place - rural Ontario. Most importantly, it conveys the voices of youth as they struggle to understand, shape, and challenge the construction of gender in their lives. (Tim McCaskell, Activist and Author of Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez draws out the words of young people, offering them space to define gender on their own terms. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is an important, exciting, and accessible contribution to the study of gender diversity within social justice education. (Tara Goldstein, Author of Zero Tolerance and Other Plays: Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in School) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's research blows the doors off of the traditional gender stereotypes in rural Ontario, and by extension, in North America. Through giving air to student voice, educators are reminded that through our words, actions, and learning activities, we can either allow those voices to resound from the treetops or quash them. How often do we create opportunities in our classrooms or public spaces to showcase student work to embrace alternative expressions of gender? Pendleton Jimenez's research provides us with the answer: not nearly often enough. As educators, we need to ask ourselves why not and engage in conversations with our colleagues and community members on how to present both traditional and creative gender expression as valid and valued. (Mandi Kofira, Elementary FSL (French as a Second Language) Teacher) This book is filled with invaluable glimpses of how this upcoming generation experiences and imagines gender. Nothing simple here! From the young people's own words and from the theoretical sections we begin to see gender as neither binary nor even on a spectrum but as the spectacular constellation it always was. (Hershel Russell, MEd., R.P., Psychotherapist, Educator, Consultant) In an innovative centering of children's stories and experiences with gender, Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's important study of over 600 elementary schoolchildren pushes our thinking about schools and the pedagogies of surveillance that discipline young people into heteronormative subjects. This book will be helpful for teachers, researchers, and administrators to rethink the role that schools play in the everyday regulation of gender. (Cindy Cruz, Associate Professor of Education, University of California Santa Cruz) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez is one of those rare teachers willing to make themselves vulnerable in order to foster learning among students. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes ranges from theoretical insights to practical lesson plans, and is rooted in a sense of place - rural Ontario. Most importantly, it conveys the voices of youth as they struggle to understand, shape, and challenge the construction of gender in their lives. (Tim McCaskell, Activist and Author of Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality)

Karleen Pendleton Jimenez draws out the words of young people, offering them space to define gender on their own terms. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is an important, exciting, and accessible contribution to the study of gender diversity within social justice education. (Tara Goldstein, Author of Zero Tolerance and Other Plays: Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in School) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's research blows the doors off of the traditional gender stereotypes in rural Ontario, and by extension, in North America. Through giving air to student voice, educators are reminded that through our words, actions, and learning activities, we can either allow those voices to resound from the treetops or quash them. How often do we create opportunities in our classrooms or public spaces to showcase student work to embrace alternative expressions of gender? Pendleton Jimenez's research provides us with the answer: not nearly often enough. As educators, we need to ask ourselves why not and engage in conversations with our colleagues and community members on how to present both traditional and creative gender expression as valid and valued. (Mandi Kofira, Elementary FSL (French as a Second Language) Teacher) This book is filled with invaluable glimpses of how this upcoming generation experiences and imagines gender. Nothing simple here! From the young people's own words and from the theoretical sections we begin to see gender as neither binary nor even on a spectrum but as the spectacular constellation it always was. (Hershel Russell, MEd., R.P., Psychotherapist, Educator, Consultant) In an innovative centering of children's stories and experiences with gender, Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's important study of over 600 elementary schoolchildren pushes our thinking about schools and the pedagogies of surveillance that discipline young people into heteronormative subjects. This book will be helpful for teachers, researchers, and administrators to rethink the role that schools play in the everyday regulation of gender. (Cindy Cruz, Associate Professor of Education, University of California Santa Cruz) Karleen Pendleton Jimenez is one of those rare teachers willing to make themselves vulnerable in order to foster learning among students. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes ranges from theoretical insights to practical lesson plans, and is rooted in a sense of place - rural Ontario. Most importantly, it conveys the voices of youth as they struggle to understand, shape, and challenge the construction of gender in their lives. (Tim McCaskell, Activist and Author of Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality)

"""Karleen Pendleton Jimenez draws out the words of young people, offering them space to define gender on their own terms. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is an important, exciting, and accessible contribution to the study of gender diversity within social justice education."" (Tara Goldstein, Author of Zero Tolerance and Other Plays: Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in School) ""Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's research blows the doors off of the traditional gender stereotypes in rural Ontario, and by extension, in North America. Through giving air to student voice, educators are reminded that through our words, actions, and learning activities, we can either allow those voices to resound from the treetops or quash them. How often do we create opportunities in our classrooms or public spaces to showcase student work to embrace alternative expressions of gender? Pendleton Jimenez's research provides us with the answer: not nearly often enough. As educators, we need to ask ourselves why not and engage in conversations with our colleagues and community members on how to present both traditional and creative gender expression as valid and valued."" (Mandi Kofira, Elementary FSL (French as a Second Language) Teacher) ""This book is filled with invaluable glimpses of how this upcoming generation experiences and imagines gender. Nothing simple here! From the young people's own words and from the theoretical sections we begin to see gender as neither binary nor even on a spectrum but as the spectacular constellation it always was."" (Hershel Russell, MEd., R.P., Psychotherapist, Educator, Consultant) ""In an innovative centering of children's stories and experiences with gender, Karleen Pendleton Jimenez's important study of over 600 elementary schoolchildren pushes our thinking about schools and the pedagogies of surveillance that discipline young people into heteronormative subjects. This book will be helpful for teachers, researchers, and administrators to rethink the role that schools play in the everyday regulation of gender."" (Cindy Cruz, Associate Professor of Education, University of California Santa Cruz) ""Karleen Pendleton Jimenez is one of those rare teachers willing to make themselves vulnerable in order to foster learning among students. Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes ranges from theoretical insights to practical lesson plans, and is rooted in a sense of place - rural Ontario. Most importantly, it conveys the voices of youth as they struggle to understand, shape, and challenge the construction of gender in their lives."" (Tim McCaskell, Activist and Author of Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality)"

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Karleen Pendleton Jiménez is a writer and Associate Professor of Education at Trent University. She publishes academic and creative works on gender, lesbian desire, learning, and Chicana/Latina experience. She wrote Are You a Boy or a Girl? (Lambda Literary Finalist) and the award-winning cartoon Tomboy.

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