Walking Herstory: New York City: A Guide to Women's History

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You pick up a New York City travel guide, and they're usually about famous landmarks, and the men who built them. But what about women like Emily Roebling, who supervised the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband fell ill Or Elizabeth Gloucester, one the wealthiest Black woman in America, who helped finance the Underground Railroad

Walking Herstory: New York City is a guide to the rich tapestry of women's history in New York City. Organized by neighborhood, this beautifully illustrated travel book takes you on inspiring walking journey through the often overlooked herstoryexperience a city where Billie Holiday sang about racism, Muriel Miguel staged plays about misogyny, and Audre Lorde wrote about the right to love. A city where women fought on the ground for green spaces like Central Park, for better working conditions in New Yorks garment factories, and for the lives of children on the Lower East Side.

FromBrooklyn Heights & Dumbo toCentral Park,Chelsea,Greenwich Village, Harlem and many other neighborhoods, Walking Herstory reveals the many women, both famous and forgotten, who shaped, influenced, built and took care of New York.

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Jana Mader is a writer and Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Munich and has taught at the University of North Carolina and The Juilliard School. Her research focuses on 19th-century literature and art, women writers of the 19th century, and environmental humanities; she is also an Associate Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Her first novel was published in Germany in 2018. As a scholar and writer, she works at the intersection of theory and practice. Jana lives in New York. More information about her work can be found at janamarlene.com. Kaitlyn Allen is an art historian with a Master's in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Africa from the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research focuses on the intersection of indigenous women and queer artists within cultural domains, Appalachian artists and architecture, and the portrayal of animals in historical objects. She has worked as a Lecturer at Western Carolina, a used and rare bookseller for Downtown Books & News in Asheville, and a curatorial assistant at the Asheville Art Museum. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and works with private art collectors and contemporary artists. For more about Kaitlyn, please visit kaitlynallen.com.