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Dr. Mary Walker
Price: $49.95
Subtitle: An American Radical,
1832-1919
Author:
Sharon M. Harris
Subject: American
Studies, Women's
Studies, History,
Literary
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4611-7
Pages:
352 pages
Publication Date: October 2009
Praise for Dr. Mary Walker
"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
Description:
A suffragist who wore pants. This
is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the
fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology,
and sociology.
Perhaps more telling about her life are the words of an 1866 London Anglo-American Times
reporter, “Her strange adventures,
thrilling experiences, important services and marvelous achievements
exceed anything that modern romance or fiction has produced. . . . She
has been one of the greatest benefactors of her sex and of the human
race.”
In this biography Sharon M. Harris steers away from a simplistic view
and showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work
as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many
nineteenth-century issues she championed: political, social, medical,
and legal reforms, abolition, temperance, gender equality, U.S.
imperialism, and the New Woman.
Rich in research and keyed to a new generation, Dr. Mary Walker captures its
subject’s articulate political voice, public self, and the realities of
an individual whose ardent beliefs in justice helped shape the radical
politics of her time.
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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