"An award-winning historian shows how \;girls \;who found self-understanding in the natural world became wom en who changed America. Harriet Tubman\, forced to labor outdoors on a Mar yland 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 th e 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confi dence outdoors\, \;Wild \;Girls \;brings new context to misund erstood icons like Sakagawea and Pocahontas\, and to under-appreciated fig ures like Native American activist writer ZitkaÌla-SÌŒaÌ\, also kn own as Gertrude Bonin\, farmworkers' champion Dolores Huerta\, and labor a nd Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs. This beautiful\, meditative wor k of history puts \;girls \;of all races -- and the landscapes the y loved -- at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women 's independence\, resourcefulness\, and vision. For these trailblazing wom en of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, navigating the woods\ , following the stars\, playing sports\, and taking to the streets in peac eful protest were not only joyful pursuits\, but also techniques to resist assimilation\, racism\, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archiva l discoveries\, this book evokes landscapes as richly as the \;girls&n bsp\;who roamed in them -- and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces f or \;girls \;of every race and class today" &mdash\;From Catalog.< /p>\n
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