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. After the war she published
Hit, an enigmatically titled book in which she advanced her radical
ideas on topics from love and marriage and dress reform to 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.
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