Gender Roles In Liz Prince's Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

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Be it be the past, present, or the future, there will be gender roles and stereotyping; Liz Prince, the author and main character of the graphic novel, Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, tells her tale of being the not-so-average girl. Liz Prince takes her readers on a journey through her life in its early stages. She showcases the struggles she goes through to find a place where she belongs. She also shows the identity conflicts that many others go through as well. Liz Prince tells the struggles of trying to fit in a society where gender roles expectations are being encouraged. Liz cannot fit into a society that expects the norm because she is not of the norm. Liz is a girl with boyish tendencies, a tomboy, and resists the societal gender expectations.