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How women were excluded from sport – and fought back

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The History of Outdoor Leisure

When did women first start participating in running and hiking these really kind of basic human forms of motion? And I sort of realized that that whole movement really starts in the early 19th century. There are a number of different narratives and explanations for where the idea of outdoor leisure comes from. But there's one dominant understanding, which is that outdoor leisure becomes a thing in the context of urbanization.

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