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 women's 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 women's rights and harshly criticized prevailing patriarchal attitudes and the enforced subservience of women.-Rowman & Littlefield
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Women, Women's rights, Divorce, Ethics, Love, Marriage, Marriage law, Sex Manuals, Sexual ethics, Sexual health, Social conditions, Social problems, Suffrage, Women, social conditionsID Numbers
- OLID: OL1517108A
- ISNI: 0000000029069256
- VIAF: 47874340
- Wikidata: Q2418031
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- Mary Edwards, M.D. Walker
- Mary E. Walker, M.D.
- Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
- Mary Edwards Walker American feminist and doctor, 1832–1919
- Walker, Mary E. 1832-1919
- ווקר, מרי אדוארדס, 1832-1919
- Walker, Mary E. (Mary Edwards), 1832-1919
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