Walk Her Way New York City: A Walking Guide to Women’s History

Walk Her Way New York City is a collection of 10 curated walking tours through New York neighborhoods, 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 neighborhood, 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 a museum, others are marked as ＂on the way.＂ All 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 women.

Jana Mader is the Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and 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 at Asheville and The Juilliard School. Her research focuses on 19th-century literature and art, women writers of the 19th century, and environmental humanities. 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.

Kaitlyn Allen is an art historian who advises private art collectors and working artists. She received 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, N.C.