Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Written by Tiya Miles
Narrated by Janina Edwards
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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. 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.
Editor's Note
Award-winning author…
An ode to nature, women, and personal freedom, “Wild Girls” traverses history to deliver portraits of young women and girls who found solace and solutions in the outdoors. Subjects include author Louisa May Alcott, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, explorer Sacagawea, and more. National Book Award winner Miles (“All That She Carried”) also looks to the future, examining how access to outdoor space (a privilege in every sense of the word) is essential to growth and equality in our communities.
Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Cundill History Prize, and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. She has been awarded more than twenty historical and literary prizes for her books and articles on slavery and race. She is also the author of Ties That Bind, The House on Diamond Hill, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts and Tales from the Haunted South, a published lecture series.
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Reviews for Wild Girls
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Loved the history and information. The structure wasn’t pleasing. It skipped around a lot. Happy to read it but it felt rushed and not edited well. Great research! Solid read. You’ll learn a lot.