Wearing Pants, Practicing Medicine, and Earning Medals as a Woman in the 1800's

Mary Edwards Walker was a gender-bending trailblazer

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/bellcm.25836/

Wearing a top hat and a suit was so unusual for a woman in the late 19th -early 20th century you might get arrested. Being a decorated military surgeon was even more surprising. Mary Edwards Walker did both. She was a non-conformist in a time…