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Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation  Cover Image Book Book

Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation

Miles, Tiya 1970- (author.).

Summary: "An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sakagawea and Pocahontas, and to under-appreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonin, farmworkers' champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs. This beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races--and the landscapes they loved--at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women's independence, resourcefulness, and vision. For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, this book evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them -- and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for girls of every race and class today"--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324020882
  • ISBN: 1324020873
  • ISBN: 9781324020875
  • Physical Description: xv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-159) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Preface. Ice bridges -- Introduction. Way finders -- Star gazers -- Nature writers -- Game changers -- Blue moons -- Epilogue. Tree tops.
Subject: Women and the environment United States History
Outdoor recreation for women United States History
Women in development United States History
Nature Psychological aspects
Feminist geography
Nature Aspect psychologique
HISTORY / Women
HIS036040
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Social conditions
Women
Women Recreation
History
Social & cultural history
Gender studies: women & girls
United States of America, USA
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
History of the Americas
History
Genre: Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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