Walk Her Way New York City: A Walking Guide to Womens History

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Walk Her Way New York City is a collection of 10 curated walking tours through New York neighbourhoods, each celebrating the city's history and the women that have made their mark here. Authors Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen have meticulously researched and traced the city blocks, uncovering important landmarks, events and women's stories, both well-known and forgotten, to create a series of fun and eye-opening walks that connect you to the city that surrounds you.

Featuring beautiful illustrated maps and portraits by Aja O'Han, each walk covers a different neighbourhood, including Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo, Central Park, Chelsea, Chinatown, East Side, Greenwich Village, Harlem, Midtown, Roosevelt Island, and SoHo. The walks can be done individually or paired together for an ultimate walking history lesson. While some stops along the walks are worth an extended visit, such as museums and galleries, others are able to experience along the way.All walks include significant landmarks of women's history, some of them not yet memorialized.

The stories and events of famous and lesser-known women come alive within the pages of the book and on each street corner, as readers can walk in the steps of this diverse set of creative and inspiring women.

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Jana Mader is a writer, scholar and translator. She has taught at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the Juilliard School and is now at Bard College, where she serves as the Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center. Jana earned her PhD in comparative literature from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction, and has written a novel and a book about the Hudson River Valley in New York, where she lives. When in New York City, she's often browsing the poetry section at the Strand Bookstore in the East Village or enjoying an espresso at Cafe Reggio in Greenwich Village. For more information about her work, visit janamarlene.com.

Kaitlyn Allen is an art historian who advises private collectors and working artists. She received an MA in the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has worked as a lecturer at Western Carolina University; as a curatorial assistant at the Asheville Art Museum; and as a bookseller of rare and used books at Downtown Books & News in Asheville. When Kaitlyn's in New York City, you can find her on the High Line or perusing the exhibition space of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea. Kaitlyn lives in Asheville, NC, and when she is not reading or writing, Kaitlyn is dancing in her living room or walking in the mountains with her dog, Albert. Please visit kaitlynallen.com to find out more about her work.