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Cargando... In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoorspor Rachel Hewitt
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A trail-blazing book about women's fights to access the great outdoors - and a very personal book about how running through the landscape helped the author in her journey from bereavement back to a sense of belonging 'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible Women When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running across moors and mountains used to help her feel at home in her body and the world, but now she becomes painfully aware of her inability to run without being cat-called or followed by strange men, or to walk alone at night without fear. Her eyes are opened to injustices facing women in sport, from men who push her off paths during races, to male bias in competition regulations, kit and media coverage. The outdoors becomes a place of danger, sharpening her sense of the grief women experience - every day, everywhere - for lack of freedom. Rachel goes in search of a new family- the foremothers who blazed a trail at the dawn of outdoor sport. She discovers Lizzie Le Blond, a courageous Anglo-Irishwoman who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts, photographed fearless women climbing, skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds, and founded the Ladies' Alpine Club, defying men who wanted the mountains to themselves. Yet after such groundbreaking progress in the late 1800s, a backlash drove women out of sports and public space. Are we now living through a similar reversal in women's rights or an era of unprecedented liberty? Telling Lizzie's story alongside her own, Rachel runs her way from bereavement to belonging, in a world that feels hostile to women. On the way she's inspired by the tenacious women, past and present, who insist that breaking boundaries outdoors is, and always has been, in her nature. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The author is trying too hard to make this book be an Everything book. I wasn't looking for a book on Everything. I wanted to read a book about badass women from the late 19th century who were outside being awesome. Instead, this book is about (1) the author's grief (2) the author's running (3) the author's grief (4) sometimes we learn about cool women from the 19th century (5) the author's grief (6) how awful it is to be a women (7) the author's grief (8) scary statistics about being female today (9) the author's grief.
Having just lost two very important people in my life last year, I get the desire to unload grief everywhere. It's omnipresent and hard to shake. Maybe that's also why I was in no mood to listen to the author unload her own grief in this book. Like, lady, I can't. Also, that's not why I picked up a book called "In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors" (not "Rachel Hewitt Lost Five Family Members: A Memoir and Rant").
Also, while I don't disagree that sexism is still pervasive in twenty-twenty-freaking-four, the scaremongering about how awful it is to go outdoors is a pet peeve of mine. I'm tired of people saying that I'm going to get assaulted if I go outside. You know what that does? That scares me away from claiming my rightful space in the outdoors. I refuse to be fear mongered to. Granted, I am privileged to live in a safe area. I acknowledge that. But still, freaking stop. Also: not what I was expecting to read about in a book that is nominally about badass historical sportswomen.
So, if you have any desire to read about badass women mountaineers from the 19th century and have no desire to skim, SKIP THIS BOOK. ( )