Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation / Tiya Miles.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Norton shorts.
Main Author:	Miles, Tiya, 1970- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2023]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Norton shorts.
Subjects:	Women and the environment > United States > History. Outdoor recreation for women > United States > History. Women in development > United States > History. Feminist geography. Femmes et environnement > États-Unis > Histoire. Loisirs de plein air féminins > États-Unis > Histoire. Géographie féministe. Femmes dans le développement > États-Unis > Histoire. HISTORY / Women. HIS036040. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. Social conditions. Women. History. Social & cultural history. Gender studies: women & girls. United States of America, USA. 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899. 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. History of the Americas. Biographies.
Genre:	Biographies.
Physical Description:	xv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format:	Book

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