By Mary Edwards Walker M.D.

ISBN-10: 1591020980

ISBN-13: 9781591020981

the single lady to obtain the Congressional Medal of Honor for her provider in the course of the Civil battle, Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) used to be a medical professional, a public lecturer, and an outspoken champion of women's rights. one of many first ladies within the kingdom to be offered a scientific measure, she served as an assistant general practitioner for the 52nd Ohio Infantry and used to be pointed out for valor in going in the back of enemy traces to take care of the sick.

Though her early profession was once hugely uncommon, her next existence grew to become arguable and in a few respects tragic. continuously a lady of serious independence, she publicly expressed powerful evaluations in regards to the desire for women's rights and harshly criticized triumphing patriarchal attitudes and the enforced subservience of girls. After the warfare she released Hit, an enigmatically titled publication within which she complicated her radical rules on themes from love and marriage and get dressed reform to woman's suffrage and religion.

With an insightful foreword via Walker expert Mercedes Graf (professor of psychology, Governors nation college, college Park, Illinois), this re-creation of a bit identified paintings by means of a pioneering feminist should be of significant curiosity to somebody curious about women's rights.

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