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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9781324020875
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324020873
ISBN-13
9781324020875
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8058632833
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wild Girls : How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Women, Special Interest / Adventure, United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History
Book Series
A Norton Short Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
The personal stories range from intriguing to downright inspiring--the Native American players of the Fort Shaw basketball team deserve a movie!--but it is the author's insatiable curiosity and obvious affection for her subjects that will most captivate readers. So many fascinating women of different races are included in this little book. It's a true treasure! This gem is an obvious choice for teens., A book that urges us to see nature -- and also girls -- differently. Best of all, it urges us to see and celebrate them together. , "Wild Girls invites readers on a crucial journey of insight and humanity, reminding us how each life--whether enslaved or dispossessed, marginalized or privileged--takes place on this Earth. In centering the formative ties with nature of remarkable girls-to-women--Harriet Tubman, Zitkála-Sá, and Louisa May Alcott among them--Tiya Miles shows how all claimed "wild" as elemental to their lives and their power to oppose racism and sexism. This reckoning with their pasts illuminates possibilities for our future.", Wild Girls invites readers on a crucial journey of insight and humanity, reminding us how each life--whether enslaved or dispossessed, marginalized or privileged--takes place on this Earth. In centering the formative ties with nature of remarkable girls-to-women--Harriet Tubman, Zitkála-Sá, and Louisa May Alcott among them--Tiya Miles shows how all claimed "wild" as elemental to their lives and their power to oppose racism and sexism. This reckoning with their pasts illuminates possibilities for our future.--Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape How did women, especially African-American and Indigenous women in the US, find freedom in the face of slavery, repression, domesticity, assimilation, trauma and fear? Through incredible storytelling and study, Miles uncovers how girls and women learned new skills and, ultimately, empowerment and peace through their experiences in the natural world.--Brenda Child, author of My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks A lovingly rendered and rigorously researched book on girls from our past, from Harriet Tubman and Louisa May Alcott to Delores Huerta and Octavia Butler, who saw possibility in the soil, the trees, the water and the stars, despite the limitations and humiliations placed on them by others. These stories are a call to action, a reminder that if we lose our way, Nature is a bridge. I, for one, am rejuvenated. What a gift. --Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces, A moving meditation on race, history, and possibility; an enticing invitation to seek renewal in green spaces; a rousing exhortation to women and girls to claim freedom in the wild; Tiya Miles offers us a rhapsodic account of nature as a respite from, and remedy for, the failings of society and culture., With delights and surprises at every turn, Wild Girls has given me a new pantheon of heroes to admire and emulate., A moving meditation on race, history, and possibility; an enticing invitation to seek renewal in green spaces; a rousing exhortation to women and girls to claim freedom in the wild. Tiya Miles offers us a rhapsodic account of nature as a respite from, and remedy for, the failings of society and culture., With delights and surprises at every turn, [this book] has given me a new pantheon of heroes to admire and emulate., A lovingly rendered and rigorously researched book... These stories are a call to action, a reminder that if we lose our way, Nature is a bridge. I, for one, am rejuvenated. What a gift., Thoroughly absorbing . . . A beautiful synthesis of diverse women's experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action, this brisk, elegant study. . . reframes hard-fought battles for women's equality through the lens of empowerment provided by the natural world. It begs us to acknowledge the primacy of the earth not only in historical lives but in our own as well., A sensitive examination of the lives of women--primarily Black and Native American--for whom the natural world served as an 'imagination station and training ground' . . . a fresh, graceful contribution to women's history., Through incredible storytelling and study, Tiya Miles uncovers how girls and women learned new skills and, ultimately, empowerment and peace through their experiences in the natural world., Captivating . . . These are wonderful, inspiring stories, and Miles delivers them with verve. A winner of the National Book Award and a MacArthur fellow, Miles is a scholar's scholar, and her capsule biographies are rich with detail and spiked with insight and revelation., Evocative and unique . . . an inventive take on what inspired people to challenge norms and agitate for change., A sensitive examination of the lives of women--primarily Black and Native American--for whom the natural world served as an 'imagination station and training ground'...a fresh, graceful contribution to women's history., How did women, especially African-American and Indigenous women in the US, find freedom in the face of slavery, repression, domesticity, assimilation, trauma and fear? Through incredible storytelling and study, Miles uncovers how girls and women learned new skills and, ultimately, empowerment and peace through their experiences in the natural world., [A] stunning scholarly and lyrical contribution... [an] inspiring offering not only to historians but to all of us who take inspiration from the unenclosed, the wild, in our pursuit of freedom. It should be read and taught widely. --J.T. Roane, American Historical Review , Beautiful. . . If you, like Miles, were once a girl who found an expansive sense of wonder and possibility in wild spaces, this is a book to savor. , A lovingly rendered and rigorously researched book on girls from our past, from Harriet Tubman and Louisa May Alcott to Delores Huerta and Octavia Butler, who saw possibility in the soil, the trees, the water and the stars, despite the limitations and humiliations placed on them by others. These stories are a call to action, a reminder that if we lose our way, Nature is a bridge. I, for one, am rejuvenated. What a gift. , Wild Girls invites readers on a crucial journey of insight and humanity, reminding us how each life--whether enslaved or dispossessed, marginalized or privileged--takes place on this Earth. This reckoning with their pasts illuminates possibilities for our future.
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
0
Dewey Decimal
304.20820973
Synopsis
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 Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Sá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, 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, Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them--and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today., A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 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 Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Sá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, 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, Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them-and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today.
LC Classification Number
GF13.3.U6
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