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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation - Tiya Miles
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation - Tiya Miles
 
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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, this book brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers' champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and civil rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs. This 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.
W. W. Norton and Company, 2024. Paperback, 208 pp.

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