"No Girls Allowed" graphic novel pictures women who lived as men

I'm ordering it from my local queer bookstore tonight!

Thanks for the tip! :0)

but i'm afraid that it will only help kids who struggle with gender feel any better while they're not in the act of getting picked on...

but i am all for anything that helps to dissemble gender roles -or make them comfortable for people of any sex to assume.

I hope that the "for love" part doesn't mean that every one of the women ends up with a man. So often that seems necessary, as if to say oh but don't worry, she really was a girl and straight too!

I read a book once where a woman spends her life living as a man mostly because she feels comfortable that way but also because she lived with a woman. I wonder how many gay women made that choice in the past in order to live with who they wanted to live with.

Also, if the women profiled ONLY passed as men because they wouldn't have been accepted otherwise (ie, they would have preferred to wear dresses and have long hair if they still could have been surgeons), it doesn't really touch at all on gender fluidity. It's only about sexism and gender equality, which is great and fine, but not the same thing and I don't think it teaches girls what you are saying it would.

For instance, I don't think a lot of little tomboys found role models in Mulan, because although she does dress as a boy, it's only to save her father, and the instant she doesn't have to anymore (and the instant she falls in love with a man) she stops.

However, as the reviews don't really answer those questions I'll reserve judgement.

I think back to when I was 10, a complete tomboy and just not able to relate to the girls in my class who were already into make up, guys, mini-skirts...and I thought I was the only one who was different or not normal in some way. And how fascinated I was by tales of women who dressed up as men - Roaslind in As You Like It, Viola in Twelfth Night...after seeing some literary reference I even found and read Orlando without understanding it too well :) Anyway, my point is that if I had found such a book at that age, it would have helped me to be more comfortable with myself..unless I am mistaken these are true stories? I remember the story of Dr. Barry (I think that was her name), a surgeon in South Africa who passed as a man till her death. 

So I'm glad that this book is out!