Hit: Essays on Women's Rights

Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, public lecturer, and outspoken champion of women's rights who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War. She published Hit, a book that advanced her radical ideas on topics from love and marriage to dress reform and woman's suffrage. This new edition of a little-known work by a pioneering feminist will be of great interest to anyone concerned about women's rights.

Format: Hardback
Length: 170 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, public lecturer, and outspoken champion of women's rights. She was the first woman in the country to be awarded a medical degree and served as an assistant surgeon for the 52nd Ohio Infantry. She was cited for valor in going behind enemy lines to attend to the sick. Her early career was highly distinguished, but her subsequent life became controversial and tragic. She publicly expressed strong opinions about the need for women's 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 to dress reform and woman's 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 women's rights.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 144 x 223 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538179611