Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919 by Sharon M. Harris

Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919



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Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919 Sharon M. Harris
Language: English
Page: 330
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0813546117, 9780813546117
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"The work is comprehensive—Harris portrays Walker as a Civil War surgeon, women''s rights activist, legal and dress reformer, and Medal of Honor recipient—and interdisciplinary scholarship makes the volume relevant to many academic fields. Highly recommended." (Choice 20100301)

"Harris''s new biography of this indefatigable nineteenth-century activist presents a richly detailed account of Walker''s engagement with myriad reform movements of the period. Her lucidly written, meticulously researched study captures the combination of moral purpose, extraordinary self-confidence, and sheer gumption that propelled Walker into a life of public service and controversy."
(Legacy 20101201)

"Inspirational. Dr. Mary Walker is a plethora of facts, evidence, and tightly woven themes that are well-researched." (Feminist Review 20090514)

"Sharon Harris has produced a carefully researched biography of a remarkable nineteenth-century woman." (New England Quarterly 20090116)

"The nation''s first female army surgeon, a pants-wearing divorcee, and the only woman ever to receive a Medal of Honor, Mary Walker was a plucky character and a courageous reformer. She agitated for abolition, women''s rights and dress reform throughout her life, taking each disappointment and turning it to new success. In this in-depth biography, Sharon Harris offers us the life and motivating passions of this overlooked and important feminist activist, who throughout her life braved arrests and public scorn to win the career she wanted, and to lecture and lobby for a better world for women.
" (Dana D. Nelson author of Bad for Democracy )

"Harris provides a more scholarly biography than any of those published so far; she has done copious original research that yields new insights into Walker''s life and that makes this work authoritative." (Cynthia J. Davis University of South Carolina )

About the Author

Sharon M. Harris is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of several books, among them Executing Race: Early Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law, and the coeditor of the forthcoming Feminist Reader.

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