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

Miles, Tiya, 1970- author

2023

Overview

Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned 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' also brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sakakawea and Pocahontas, and to under-appreciated figures like Gertrude Bonin, Dolores Huerta and Grace Lee Boggs. For the girls at the centre of this book, woods, rivers, ball courts and streets provided not just escape from degrees of servitude but also space to envision new spheres of action. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, this book evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them.

• Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
• Subject: Women and the environment United States History. / Outdoor recreation for women United States History. / Environment and Ecology.
• ISBN: 9781324020875

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF13.3.U6 M55 2023	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT