{"product_id":"9781324076155","title":"Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editors’ Choice A \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e “Thoroughly absorbing.… A beautiful synthesis of diverse women’s experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action.” —Jill Watts, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet 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, \u003cem\u003eWild Girls\u003c\/em\u003e brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003cem\u003eWild Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917930348784,"sku":"9781324076155","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324076155_p0.jpg?v=1763707877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324076155","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}