Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez is an American-Canadian writer and academic. She is best known for her 2000 book Are You a Boy or a Girl?, a 2001 Lambda Literary Award finalist which was adapted into the 2008 film Tomboy, and her 2011 memoir How to Get a Girl Pregnant, a 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, she is currently a full professor in the School of Education at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. In addition to her literary work, she also co-edited, with Isabel Killoran, the academic anthology Unleashing the Unpopular: Talking About Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Education.
Works
- Are You a Boy or a Girl?
- Unleashing the Unpopular
- How to Get a Girl Pregnant
- Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the Classroom
- ''The Street Belongs to Us''