When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild : Being a Woman Outdoors in America /

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In When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild, Lilace Mellin Guignard draws from emblematic moments and relationships in her own life to explore issues of gender, recreation, and environmental conservation. Born into a suburban family, Guignard wanted to get up close and personal with iconic American...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guignard, Lilace Mellin (Author)
Other Authors: Killingsworth, M. Jimmie (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women naturalists.
Outdoorsmen.
Outdoor recreation for women.
Outdoor life.
Naturalists.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
Loisirs de plein air feminins > États-Unis.
Plein air > États-Unis.
Naturalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes naturalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Amateurs de plein air > États-Unis > Biographies.
Outdoor recreation for women > United States.
Outdoor life > United States.
Naturalists > United States > Biography.
Women naturalists > United States > Biography.
Outdoorsmen > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting out
  • Twentieth-century road trip
  • Independence, road trips, and backpacking
  • Large as land
  • Men and tents
  • To reach green before dark
  • Whitewater twenties
  • Marking my territory
  • Babes in the woods and on the rivers
  • Risking play
  • Rock-climbing thirties
  • Toy equity
  • Outside expectations
  • En cordee feminine
  • Becoming all animal
  • Bicycles, motherhood, and midlife
  • Blighted
  • Self as habitat
  • Age of adventure
  • Fire in paradise
  • Going home
  • Twenty-first-century road trip.

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