Mary Walker (1833-1919): Biography of an American Radical and Physician

FAIN: FB-51825-05

Sharon Marie Harris
Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX 76129-0001)

This critical biography of Dr. Mary Walker (1833-1919) places the life of one of America's earliest women physicians in the context of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medicine, reform movements, and literature. Walker was a physician, author, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, inventor, and peace activist whose radical activism alienated as many followers and it attracted, but she never abandoned her belief in her right to independence and to participate in U.S. society on her own terms--from her early work as a surgeon in the Civil War to her run for the U.S. Senate in 1881 to her lifelong endeavor to insure women's right to vote.

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Dr. Mary Walker, An American Radical, 1832-1919 (Book)
Title: Dr. Mary Walker, An American Radical, 1832-1919
Author: Sharon M. Harris
Abstract: A biography of the radical feminist Dr. Mary Walker, Harris's book traces the prominent life of the only woman contracted by Union Army during the Civil War and the only woman ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Walker was a physician, writer, suffragist, dress reformer, and anti-death penalty activist who was a prominent member of the Washington political world from the 1860s until her death in 1919.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8135-461

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