Dr. Mary Walker - Sharon M Harris

Dr. Mary Walker

An American Radical, 1832-1919

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
330 Seiten
2009
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4611-7 (ISBN)
83,75 inkl. MwSt
Dr Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. This biography 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.
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.

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.

1 "Give me liberty of thought":

2 Dress Reform and The Sibyl

3 "The ark of reform"

4 Surgeon, Spy, and Prisoner of War

5 Interlude

6 Touring Britain

7 "A Representative Woman"

8 A Crusader's Hit

9 Women's Rights Unmasked

10 The Courtroom, the Legislature, Party Politics

11 A Pragmatic Utopia

12 Anti-Imperialism and the World Stage

13 The Age of Alienation

14 "Dear Old Native Land"

Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.2009
Zusatzinfo 12 illustrations. 12 photographs
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 624 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
ISBN-10 0-8135-4611-7 / 0813546117
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-4611-7 / 9780813546117
Zustand Neuware
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