Women In The Hills, c. 1800 to Present

山间妇女（WITH）网络将汇集来自不同学科和部门的学者、有创意的实践者和利益相关者，他们关注从1800年至今影响妇女土地使用的背景。这种跨学科、跨部门的合作将对界定、阻碍和促进妇女与土地接触的因素进行前所未有的全面、细致的探索。当赞美诗作者弗朗西丝·哈弗加尔在1871年写到最近的一次登山冒险时，她“直到前一年夏天才知道这是一种强烈的享受和对健康有益的结合……她指出(a)妇女构成了一个独特的土地使用者群体，她们对土地使用的价值观、信仰、经验和表述往往不同于男性偏见的规范；(b)承认土地使用经验的这种多样性有助于促进健康和福祉方面的积极成果。WITH的探索将集中于女性在英国高地的行走、跑步和攀登，从1800年户外休闲的繁荣到现在。国际妇女组织关于妇女参与的历史和当代障碍和激励因素的讨论将围绕三个重点类别：(a)女性身体；(b)妇女的社会环境；(c)妇女作为土地管理决策的制定者和接受者。在这一探索中，艺术和人文研究将(a)将阻碍或促进女性参与的因素历史化，(b)探索文学和视觉人工制品作为女性参与的证据，(c)分析这些人工制品的美学，作为女性如何构成一个独特的创意景观实践者群体的证据，(d)评估历史表征对当代女性土地使用的影响，(e)传播妇女对土地使用的陈述，以挑战妇女在这一类型中声音的历史边缘化。WITH将促进女性写作学者之间的对话；环境历史;数字人文;景观美学;旅游历史、服饰装备；运动科学与医学；女权主义;还有计算机科学。对话将包括景观表现的创意从业者；档案管理员和策展人；以及遗产、保护、卫生、环保、工程、理疗、旅游和户外行业、服装和装备设计等领域的利益相关者。WITH有四个项目合作伙伴：保护慈善机构约翰·缪尔信托基金、女子越野跑公司“山上的女孩”、盆腔健康运动者“盆腔咆哮”和曼彻斯特大学英语系（文学地理学和数字人文学科学者乔安娜·泰勒博士）。合作者包括户外产业协会、EVB运动和国家信托。在纽卡斯尔文学艺术中心的“自然写作节”（约200人）公开启动后，该网络将包括三个为期一天的研讨会（约40人），每个研讨会都围绕该网络的三个重点类别之一进行主题讨论。为贫困妇女举办的住宿周末活动（约10人）将包括受讲习班讨论影响的实用、信息丰富和创造性会议。为期两天的会议（约120人）将报告研讨会和周末的主要发现，并通过邀请演讲者和公开征集参与者的演讲来巩固这些发现。该网络的探索将通过期刊特刊进行传播；华兹华斯信托展；网站、博客和社交媒体；以及确定障碍并建议可交付的改进措施的政策文件，其影响将在“山上的女孩”和国民信托组织实施的干预措施中进行衡量。通过这些方法，国际环境组织将发展一种跨学科、跨部门的方法，适用于未来关于土地使用者经验和表现的多样性的研究。

The Women In The Hills (WITH) Network will bring together scholars, creative practitioners and stakeholders, across a range of disciplines and sectors, concerned with the contexts that shape women's land use from c. 1800 to the present day. This inter-disciplinary, cross-sector collaboration will generate an unprecedentedly holistic, nuanced exploration of factors that define, hinder and promote women's engagements with land.When hymn-writer Frances Havergal wrote in 1871 about a recent mountaineering adventure that she 'did not know till the summer before last what a combination of keen enjoyment and benefit to health...was to be found in a pedestrian tour by unprotected females,' she identified (a) that women constitute a distinct community of land users, whose values, beliefs, experiences and representations, about land use frequently differ from a male-biased norm, and (b) that recognition of such diversity in experiences of land use promotes positive outcomes in health and wellbeing.WITH's explorations will focus on women's walking, running and climbing in UK uplands, from the flourishing of outdoor leisure in c. 1800 to the present. WITH's discussion of historical and contemporary barriers and incentives to women's participation will be structured around three focal categories: (a) female bodies, (b) women's social circumstances, (c) women as makers and recipients of decisions about land management. Within this exploration, arts and humanities research will (a) historicise factors that hinder or promote women's participation, (b) explore literary and visual artefacts as evidence of women's participation, (c) analyse those artefacts' aesthetics as evidence for how women constitute a distinct community of creative landscape practitioners, (d) assess the impact of historical representations on contemporary women's land use, and (e) disseminate women's representations of land use to challenge the historical marginalisation of women's voices in this genre. WITH will facilitate conversations between scholars in women's writing; environmental history; digital humanities; landscape aesthetics; history of tourism, clothing and equipment; sports science and medicine; feminism; and computer sciences. Conversations will include creative practitioners in landscape representation; archivists and curators; and stakeholders across heritage, conservation, sanitation, environmentalism, engineering, physiotherapy, tourism and outdoor industries, clothing and kit design. WITH has four project partners: conservation charity John Muir Trust, women's trail-running company Girls on Hills, pelvic health campaigners Pelvic Roar, and University of Manchester's English Department (Dr Joanna Taylor, scholar of literary geography and digital humanities). Collaborators include the Outdoor Industries Association, EVB Sport, and National Trust. After a public launch at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts' Nature-Writing Festival (c. 200 people), the network will include three one-day workshops (c. 40 people), each themed around one of the network's three focal categories. A residential field weekend for underprivileged women (c. 10 people) will include practical, informative and creative sessions influenced by workshop discussions. A two-day conference (c. 120 people) will report on key findings from the workshops and weekend, and build on these via presentations from invited speakers and participants from an open call. The network's explorations will be disseminated via a journal special issue; Wordsworth Trust exhibition; website, blog and social media; and policy document identifying barriers and recommending deliverable improvements, whose impact will be measured during interventions implemented by Girls on Hills, and the National Trust. Through these approaches, WITH will develop an inter-disciplinary, cross-sector methodology applicable to future research on diversity among land-users' experiences and representations.