![]() ![]() I reminded myself over and over about all the incredible art and music that came from people who defied gender norms. So these songs play with that idea, of how a girl or boy should be, and how they get celebrated or chastised when they don’t abide. What’s normal for boys and for girls has shifted many times in history, as has the idea that there should be separate ideas of what’s normal for each group. But that whole idea is dependent upon the notion that there’s a normal way for a boy or girl to behave or look. Tomboy is ostensibly about girls who dressed or acted or played like boys-the science, psychology, culture, history and future of their motivations and experiences. In her own words, here is Lisa Selin Davis's Book Notes music playlist for her book Tomboy: Davis's persuasive and deeply personal argument for moving beyond the gender binary will resonate with those curious about child rearing free of normative expectations." ![]() Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. ![]() Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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