Hit (eBook)

Essays on Women's Rights

Mary Edwards Walker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
170 Seiten
Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7834-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War, Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, a public lecturer, and an outspoken champion of womens rights. One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree, she served as an assistant surgeon for the 52nd Ohio Infantry and was cited for valor in going behind enemy lines to attend to the sick. Though her early career was highly distinguished, her subsequent life became controversial and, in some respects, tragic. Always a woman of great independence, she publicly expressed strong opinions about the need for womens rights and harshly criticized prevailing patriarchal attitudes and the enforced subservience of women. After the war she published Hit, an enigmatically titled book in which she advanced her radical ideas on topics from love and marriage and dress reform to womans suffrage and religion. With an insightful foreword by Walker specialist Mercedes Graf (professor of psychology, Governors State University, University Park, Illinois), this new edition of a little-known work by a pioneering feminist will be of great interest to anyone concerned about womens rights.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Classics in Women’s Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Doctor • Feminism • feminist • love and marriage • Religion • surgeon • women's rights • women's suffrage
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-7834-6 / 1538178346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-7834-8 / 9781538178348