In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors
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com Lori is on holiday from the States, hoping to find her way to the lake that she's looked at for years in a picture on her wall back home. She discovers Lizzie Le Blond who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts and photographed fearless women climbing, skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds. Sometimes the best things in life happen when you dare to get out of your depth. Thanks to them, women now compete at traditional fell races, international mountain races and endurance challenges such as the Bob Graham Round in increasing numbers. 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, who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts, photographed fearless women skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds, and founded the Ladies' Alpine Club, defying men who wanted the mountains to themselves.
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Matilda Klein
) Filled with unexpected detail and tender - but sometimes quietly furious - analysis. I loved this book, with its brilliant interweaving of history, memoir and feminist politics. Rachel encourages women to spend more time outdoors through personal narratives, academic research, and a call to action.
Victoria Smith
It's made me think long and hard about the space women are permitted to occupy in public, and how this changes our perceptions of ourselves and our bodies. It's also made me want to run more! (But is vital reading for anyone, runner or not! Rachel Hewitt's "In Her Nature" was fantastic.
By rediscovering her love of running, Hewitt inspires readers to fight for their own place in the outdoors. The book dispels the myth that women's participation in sports started in the late 20th century and highlights the precarious state of women's participation due to exclusion and male violence.
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