Wild Girls
Book description
Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned 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…
Why read it?
1 author picked Wild Girls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A slim volume that packs a punch, this book is a love letter to women of color and their deep knowledge of nature. While not explicitly about women scientists, per se, it is about women who sought nature’s secrets and used them to resist the constraints of patriarchy and racism, so I believe it belongs on this list.
Miles shows how these women’s success in whatever arena they chose (which is why we know their names today) often hinged upon their deep knowledge of and connection to nature. I really appreciated this unique approach to historical scholarship and the intersectional…
From Olivia's list on the history of women in science.
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